Queensland Steam Action features 11 locomotives from 7 classes of Queensland Rail designs that spanned steam operations from 1865 through to 1969. All of these locomotives survived the decline and elimination of regular steam operations on Queensland Rail metals.
This production highlights these locomotives in a variety of settings and conditions. Each locomotive provides a glimpse of an era long gone.
For the record the locomotives the feature as follows:
• A10 - Number 6 from 1865, one of the oldest locomotives still operating on a main line system in the world;
• PB15 - 448 built in 1908, by the Walkers plant in Maryborough;
• PB17 - 732 of 1926, also a Walkers product;
• AC16 - 221A an American war time Baldwin build of 1943,
• C17 - 720 of 1922, a Walkers product;
• C17 - 971 part of a batch of 40 locomotives built by Walkers in 1951;
• C17 - 974 also built in 1951 at Walkers;
• DD17 - 1051 was built by the Ipswich Railway Workshops in 1952;
• BB18 1/4 - 1079 was constructed by Walkers in 1956;
• BB18 1/4 - 1089 was the last steam locomotive built for a main line network in Australia in 1958;
• Beyer Garratt 1009 was built by Beyer, Peacock and Company in 1950.
Produced and Directed Mike Condon
Copyright Express Train Video - Australia, 2015
14 окт 2024
