Christmas miracle: Breakthrough in 127-yr Mary Ann mystery
News Nancy Bates Premium Content Subscriber only They are calling it a Christmas miracle at the Whistlestop museum. The original name plate of the legendary Mary Ann locomotive has mysteriously reappeared after 127 years. The little locomotive, the first built in Queensland, disappeared without a trace in 1893 after a Mary River flood and a disastrous fire at the Dundathu sawmill where she was stored. Maryborough engineer Peter Olds, long intrigued by the quaint little loco with the upright boiler, was the driving force behind the building of a replica, ...
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