I miss cane trains and cane fields. We used to have so much fun as kids riding motorbikes through the fields and waiting for cane trans to catch a lift on the back for a bit of fun, just to walk all the way back 😂
Well apart from Nambour, just about all the other cane railways are still in full operation but purely diesel these days. I can imagine the fun kids had jumping onto the back of a train and standing on the coupling. Would have beat walking.
Dillon Trinh Studios This is all I have in this video. I did not live in Queensland so could not go there easily for anything like the last steam loco, even if I heard about it.
@@tressteleg1 In Ingham North Queensland they have & use a steam locomotive for special occasions, it is housed under an awning outside Victoria Sugar Mill, they run it on the lines already in place that they haul the sugar cane on to mill.
I knew about Homebush but not whether it was still operating for those special events. Years ago when I was involved in the Albion Park steam museum south of Wollongong, they got sister engine Cairns, fitted new boiler tubes and ran it in service for years. At present it is awaiting funds for a boiler overhaul.
@@tressteleg1 still is when they have the Australian/Italian Festival & Maraka Festival & for when they have Christmas Party for mill workers families & children.
Agreed. People who ignore fascinating operations like cane trains are missing out on a great part of the hobby. I barely call them rail fans. I guess you know that the smaller diesel locos in Fiji mostly came from Australia.
Wow, another nostalgic masterpiece captured on film, thank you kindly for sharing tressteleg1 (BTW, I grew up and lived around Nambour, QLD and still today, miss the old Moreton Central sugar mill and it's 'once' extensive tramway / cane train network)
Glad you liked it. I’ll never forgive those Belgians for closing the mill and tramway. While the tramway was the ‘scrappiest’ in Qld, it was by far the most interesting with its mingling with suburbia etc, lift bridges ... I took a lot of VHS video over the years. Maybe I should post some. It includes the later steam train running for the cane festivals.
The Condong Fowler diesel was never a steam loco, just a very early diesel, built 1936 I think!
I miss cane trains and cane fields. We used to have so much fun as kids riding motorbikes through the fields and waiting for cane trans to catch a lift on the back for a bit of fun, just to walk all the way back 😂
Well apart from Nambour, just about all the other cane railways are still in full operation but purely diesel these days. I can imagine the fun kids had jumping onto the back of a train and standing on the coupling. Would have beat walking.
great to see a bit of millaquin mill and qunaba i still work at millaquin mill during the crushing season
Always good to hear from present day mill workers. I suppose all the old steam men are long retired or worse by now.
@@tressteleg1 yeh all gone now the last to drive a steamer retired about 5 odd years ago
Thanks for that. Hopefully he and others will be around for quite some time yet.
@@tressteleg1 Some driving locos at the botanic gardens.
Yes, I have been there a couple of times.
Do you took any photos of the last cane railway to use steam locomotives?
Dillon Trinh Studios This is all I have in this video. I did not live in Queensland so could not go there easily for anything like the last steam loco, even if I heard about it.
@@tressteleg1 In Ingham North Queensland they have & use a steam locomotive for special occasions, it is housed under an awning outside Victoria Sugar Mill, they run it on the lines already in place that they haul the sugar cane on to mill.
its name is Homebush
I knew about Homebush but not whether it was still operating for those special events.
Years ago when I was involved in the Albion Park steam museum south of Wollongong, they got sister engine Cairns, fitted new boiler tubes and ran it in service for years. At present it is awaiting funds for a boiler overhaul.
@@tressteleg1 still is when they have the Australian/Italian Festival & Maraka Festival & for when they have Christmas Party for mill workers families & children.
Had a look at the can trains on Fiji a few years ago when i was there, amazing ... thats my main love in trains the oddities
Agreed. People who ignore fascinating operations like cane trains are missing out on a great part of the hobby. I barely call them rail fans.
I guess you know that the smaller diesel locos in Fiji mostly came from Australia.
Wow, another nostalgic masterpiece captured on film, thank you kindly for sharing tressteleg1
(BTW, I grew up and lived around Nambour, QLD and still today, miss the old Moreton Central sugar mill and it's 'once' extensive tramway / cane train network)
Glad you liked it. I’ll never forgive those Belgians for closing the mill and tramway. While the tramway was the ‘scrappiest’ in Qld, it was by far the most interesting with its mingling with suburbia etc, lift bridges ... I took a lot of VHS video over the years. Maybe I should post some. It includes the later steam train running for the cane festivals.
Part 2 around Ingham will follow before too long.
I used to hitch a ride on these in th 197o,s ere.what wonderful memories
You might find today’s diesels a bit faster to jump onto 😊