At the Tangiwai Historic Reserve, the tall stone memorial now has all the names engraved of those who died in the railway disaster on Christmas Eve, 1953.
When the memorial was erected in the 1980s, it had no names - just the date of the rail disaster that killed 151 passengers.
Last year the Ohakune Lions Club decided it was time to record the names of every man, woman and child who died.
Lions' spokesman Carel Sietse said the club had thought about it for a long time and it had always surprised the club that NZ Railways or Kiwirail had never ordered the engravings.
"That disaster was 63 years ago, something should have been done before now."