Model Trains and Things

Yesterday in The Streets of Rockhampton I mentioned that we’d had to travel to Rockhampton on Tuesday. That trip took us through a lot of sugar cane country and it was interesting to see that the cutting season was well under way and that means that the cane trains are out and about.

So far my cane train photography has been rather limited but I hope to improve on that situation this season. Until then here’s a photo of Queensland Railways DH29 in a rather sad and sorry state as it sits outside the Bundaberg Foundry.

DH29 was part of an order for 73 diesel hydraulic shunting locos built for Queensland Railways by Walkers of Maryborough. The were fitted with a Caterpillar D355E engine that produced 347kW/465HP. The first of the class entered service in December 1966 and DH29 entered service in April 1969.

All of the class are now out of service; some were sold to Malaysia and Vietnam, some have been scrapped and some were sold to various sugar mills where they were re-gauged, rebodied and put into service hauling cane trains.

DH29 was sold to the Kalamia/Inkerman mill and this photo by Brad Peadon shows it sitting outside Bundaberg Foundry waiting its turn to be rebuilt.

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