Model Trains and Things

I’ve been sitting here all day writing articles for clients and I just finished the last of them a few moments ago and decided that it was time post something here. So I put my hand in my drawer of photos and pulled this one out.

This photo shows Isis #3 crossing the Bundaberg-Childers Road with a string of empty cane bins. Isis #3 started life as number 18 of the Queensland Railways DH class. Back then it was a 1067mm / 3’6″ gauge locomotive of 347 kW / 465 hp.

It first entered service in December 1968 and was subsequently sold to the Isis Mill were it was extensively rebuilt for use on the mill’s 610mm / 2′ gauge railway. This photo was taken on 15 October 1996 when the loco was 28 years old.

The photo comes courtesy of Brad Peadon and it’s appropriate because he’s just annnounced a series of postings coming up soon that will look at the old Moreton Mill system at Nambour on one of his blogs

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