First steam engine road trip
Photo - All Night Sitter by Mark Tronson My parents were dairy farmers at Crediton (Eungella) on the great dividing range west of Mackay Queensland and moved into the Mackay township in 1955 after my father suffered a horse accident during a cyclone when herding ion the milking cows. His story can be read in his diaries held on both our site and the Mackay library. On one occasion I recall welcoming friends off the Sunlander passenger train at Mackay Railway Station and watching this beautiful gleaming blue and white diesel engine pull to a stop and my heart was sold. I recall at prim...