Friday, November 4, 2011

Queensland Railways steam at Barron Falls


Sometime in the early 1900s, a pair of B13 steam locomotives take a mixed train from the Atherton tableland down to the coast past the Barron Falls, a highlight on what is now the route of the Cairns to Kuranda scenic tourist line, also used by the Savannahlander. The B13 was a 4-6-0 type of which 112 were produced between 1883 and 1895.  For NZ enthusiasts the track gauge in Queensland is the same as at home.
QR B13 number 93 in the mid-1880s. (wikimedia)

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