One of my favourite things I've found in the course of my research is the train replacement canoe—yes, CANOE—that operated in the Manawatū during a flood in March 1880 to maintain services between Palmerston North and Foxton

From p.17 of this piece: https://web.archive.org/web/20211217112104/http://www.nzjh.auckland.ac.nz/document.php?wid=2223
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