Steam Cane Train
It’s an epic battle of man and steam engine trying to shift tonnage up a steep grade and it used to happen every day in Nambour Queensland during cane season on a 2 foot cane railway that ran up the centre of the main street in town.
Sadly it’s all gone now … steam was phased out many years ago but one loco came back to make it all happen in 1999. Turn the volume up because this loco wants to be heard.
July 8th, 2010 at 2:39 am
Hello, I recently purchased a brass luggage rack with the logo “NSWR” on the side. I would love to know where it came from. Can you help? Thanks
July 8th, 2010 at 4:31 am
Hello Becky
NSWR stands for New South Wales Railways and those brass luggage racks were fitted in every compartment (and over every set of seats in open carriages) of just about every passenger carriage used outside of the metropolitan area in the days before airconditioned coaches became the norm.
From memory there were two types … a relatively short one used in open carriages and a longer one used in carriages that were divided into compartments. It wasn’t uncommon for people - usually men - to actually sleep in those longer racks if they were on one of the overnight mail trains.
They never looked all that comfortable to me so I never tried it.
Stuart