Steam in the Streets
Every Thursday morning a very unusual scene unfolds at a busy road intersection in Maryborough Queensland. At first a man with a broom appears and sweeps the place where the Wharf Branch crosses the road.
At the same time the local shunter appears to flag the crossing – it seems that a man weilding a broom isn’t enough to trip the flashing lights.
And then the train appears
And finally … just when every motorist but me has had enough of waiting the loco appears pushing it’s train into the adjacent park.
Meet Maryborough’s very own operating steam locomotive, the Mary Anne. This is an operating replica of the first loco built by what became Walkers Engineering. Throughout the day on every Thursday and the last Sunday in each month it operates short trips on part of the Wharf Branch.