It took 10 years to fundraise the more than $60,000 required to relocate the classic railcar...

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/wairarapa-times-age/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503414&objectid=11039752

In the main centres rail heritage projects are quite big and well supported, but in rural areas like most other things, funding is very hard to come by.