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'Coffee Pot' Kerr Stuart 3ft gauge 0-4-0T locomotive (No. 643 of 1898) at Powelltown

'Coffee Pot' Kerr Stuart 3ft gauge 0-4-0T locomotive (No. 643 of 1898)...

'Coffee Pot' Kerr Stuart 3ft gauge 0-4-0T locomotive (No. 643 of 1898) at Powelltown

'Harlot' - the Ransome steam lorry used on and near the Marrawah Tramway

'Harlot' - the Ransome steam lorry used on and near the Marrawah Tramw...

"Harlot" the Ransome steam lorry was one of the most unusual locomotives to operate on the Circular Head, Tasmania tramways (Marrawah Tramway). Special permission had to be given to drive it to Salmon River on ... More

'Moreton' locomotive hauls a sugarcane tram across Currie Street, Nambour (cropped ca 1950)

'Moreton' locomotive hauls a sugarcane tram across Currie Street, Namb...

Steam locomotive "Moreton" hauls a sugarcane tram across Currie Street, Nambour, ca.1950.

'Moreton' locomotive hauls a sugarcane tram across Currie Street, Nambour (cropped)

'Moreton' locomotive hauls a sugarcane tram across Currie Street, Namb...

Steam locomotive "Moreton" hauls a sugarcane tram across Currie Street, Nambour, ca.1939.

'Moreton' locomotive hauls a sugarcane tram across Currie Street, Nambour

'Moreton' locomotive hauls a sugarcane tram across Currie Street, Namb...

Steam locomotive "Moreton" hauls a sugarcane tram across Currie Street, Nambour. Top: ca.1939. Bottom: ca.1950.

0-4-2 Decauville locomotive 'Frenchy' in Queensland, Australia

0-4-2 Decauville locomotive 'Frenchy' in Queensland, Australia

Deutsch: 0-4-2 Decauville locomotive 'Frenchy' in Queensland, Australia (name and location are engraved on the bottom of the photo). Probably Decauville N° 246/1897, which is now known as 'Victory'

A class 4-4-0 (11682397934) - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

A class 4-4-0 (11682397934) - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

A class 4-4-0. Ted Lidster collection Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, engine, train, railroad, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

B class locomotive at Macquarie Plains (11682379854)

B class locomotive at Macquarie Plains (11682379854)

A B class locomotive at Macquarie Plains. Ted Lidster collection Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, engine, train, railroad, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Baldwin’s locomotive at Kiama, New South Wales post office

Baldwin’s locomotive at Kiama, New South Wales post office

Deutsch: Baldwin’s locomotive at Kiama, New South Wales post office

Buderim Mountain train (7573958512)

Buderim Mountain train (7573958512)

Photo taken circa 1910. Buderim is an urban centre on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. It sits on a 180-metre (590 ft) mountain which overlooks the southern Sunshine Coast communities. Buderim was see... More

C10, Apsley, circa 1913 (11682413014)

C10, Apsley, circa 1913 (11682413014)

C10, Apsley, circa 1913. Ted Lidster collection Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, engine, train, railroad, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

CC17 in Hobart (11682776706) - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

CC17 in Hobart (11682776706) - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

CC17 in Hobart. Ted Lidster collection Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, engine, train, railroad, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Colebrook, circa 1949 (11682277703)

Colebrook, circa 1949 (11682277703)

Colebrook, circa 1949. Ted Lidster collection Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, engine, train, railroad, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Couillet steam locomotive at the West Melbourne Gas Works

Couillet steam locomotive at the West Melbourne Gas Works

Couillet steam locomotive at the West Melbourne Gas Works Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, engine, train, railroad, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Decauville locomotive 'John Benn' of the Metropolitan Gas Company in Melbourne built in 1886

Decauville locomotive 'John Benn' of the Metropolitan Gas Company in M...

Decauville locomotive 'John Benn' of the Metropolitan Gas Company in Melbourne built in 1886

Ex Queensland Railways Dubs 2-4-2T on an Elliots low loader at King's Pier, Hobart (11698330304)

Ex Queensland Railways Dubs 2-4-2T on an Elliots low loader at King's ...

The ex Queensland Railways Dubs 2-4-2T on an Elliots low loader at King's Pier, Hobart, circa 1950. This loco is now at the Don River Railway. J J N Barnett photo, Ted Lidster collection

Harman geared locomotive built for the State Forestry Commission of Victoria in 1927

Harman geared locomotive built for the State Forestry Commission of Vi...

Deutsch: Harman geared locomotive built for the State Forestry Commission of Victoria in 1927

Hauling cut cane to the mills at Babinda

Hauling cut cane to the mills at Babinda

Deutsch: Zuckerrohrtransport per Schmalspurbahn zur Zuckerfabrik in Babinda (Queensland) Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, engine, train, railroad, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - ... More

Isis Central Sugar Mill with cane train, 17 September 1896 (36577212205)

Isis Central Sugar Mill with cane train, 17 September 1896 (3657721220...

Isis Sugar Central Mill near Bundaberg was founded in 1896. This is mostly likely the first crop. http://www.archivessearch.qld.gov.au/Image/DigitalImageDetails.aspx?ImageId=" Queensland State Archives, Digita... More

John Spiller's first steam engine, Mackay region

John Spiller's first steam engine, Mackay region

John Spiller's first steam engine Mary Ann built by Robertson & Co at the Victoria Foundry, Mackay, in 1880 crossing Fursden Creek. Or less likely: The Emma Ruth, John Spiller's first steam engine transporting ... More

Magnet No.3 (31799959452) - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

Magnet No.3 (31799959452) - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

Magnet Tramway Orenstein & Koppel 0-4-4-0T Mallet No.3, at Magnet mine.

Magnet tram (28070064140) - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

Magnet tram (28070064140) - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

Magnet tram Public domain photograph of a tram car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Magnet tram (28363418836)

Magnet tram (28363418836)

J H Robinson photo Public domain photograph of a tram car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Magnet tram (28416685446) - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

Magnet tram (28416685446) - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

Orenstein and Koppel Mallet at the Arthur River crossing? Public domain photograph of a tram car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Marrawah Tramway - The Marshall loco hauling a load of blackwood

Marrawah Tramway - The Marshall loco hauling a load of blackwood

Deutsch: Marrawah Tramway. The Marshall loco hauling a load of blackwood

Mount Lyell Krauss (11698803456)

Mount Lyell Krauss (11698803456)

Mount Lyell Krauss. Ted Lidster collection Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, engine, train, railroad, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mt Bischoff 3ft gauge Beyer Peacock 0-4-0ST (11620352593)

Mt Bischoff 3ft gauge Beyer Peacock 0-4-0ST (11620352593)

Mt Bischoff 3ft gauge Beyer Peacock 0-4-0ST. Ted Lidster collection

Narrow-gauge 3ft6in steam rail car between Hawker and Quorn (2)

Narrow-gauge 3ft6in steam rail car between Hawker and Quorn (2)

Deutsch: Narrow-gauge 36' steam rail car between Hawker and Quorn

Narrow-gauge 3ft6in steam railcar between Hawker and Quorn

Narrow-gauge 3ft6in steam railcar between Hawker and Quorn

Deutsch: Narrow-gauge 36' steam rail car between Hawker and Quorn

North Mount Lyell Railway Avonside 4-6-0 No. 1 "J. Crotty" at Kelly Basin, circa 1900 (11658911376)

North Mount Lyell Railway Avonside 4-6-0 No. 1 "J. Crotty" at Kelly Ba...

North Mount Lyell Railway Avonside 4-6-0 No. 1 "J. Crotty" at Kelly Basin, circa 1900. Ted Lidster collection

Orenstein & Koppel Mallet (36330872085)

Orenstein & Koppel Mallet (36330872085)

at Magnet, early 1900's Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, engine, train, railroad, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Perry 0-6-2 new build under test at Perry's Mile End works (Perry Engineering publicity shot - Gary Brooks collection) 02

Perry 0-6-2 new build under test at Perry's Mile End works (Perry Engi...

Perry 0-6-2 new build under test at Perry's Mile End works (Perry Engineering Publicity Shot - Gary Brooks collection). Probably Proserpine No 1 (1939). Note the short chimney, the small sand boxes and the red ... More

Perry 0-6-2 new build under test at Perry's Mile End works (Perry Engineering publicity shot - Gary Brooks collection)

Perry 0-6-2 new build under test at Perry's Mile End works (Perry Engi...

Perry 0-6-2 new build under test at Perry's Mile End works (Perry Engineering Publicity Shot - Gary Brooks collection). Probably Proserpine Mill No 1 (1939). Note the short chimney, the small sand boxes and the... More

Russell River and Bellenden Ker, Babinda, North Queensland, c.1927, Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 858

Russell River and Bellenden Ker, Babinda, North Queensland, c.1927, Qu...

Russell River and Bellenden Ker, Babinda, North Queensland, c.1927, Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 858

Sandfly Colliery Tramway tailed by 2-4-0T Krauss locomotive

Sandfly Colliery Tramway tailed by 2-4-0T Krauss locomotive

Loaded coal train heading down hill on the Sandfly Colliery Tramway tailed by the 2-4-0T Krauss locomotive. This line ran from coal mines at Kaoota, in the hills around Sandfly, to Margate, south of Hobart on N... More

Steam locomotive at Moonta mines (State Library of South Australia B 36083)

Steam locomotive at Moonta mines (State Library of South Australia B 3...

A locomotive used at the Moonta mines on the 2' 9" gauge line between Taylor's shaft and Richman's Plant. Built in Manchester by Beyer, Peacock & Co., No. 3057 of 1889, the engine was later converted to 3' 6 ' ... More

Sugar cane train near Nambour, September 1958 (34997340191)

Sugar cane train near Nambour, September 1958 (34997340191)

Nambour Chronicle and North Coast Advertiser 14 August 1953 SUGAR CRUSHING RATE ALMOST DOUBLED Compared with the same time last year, the Moreton Central Mill crushing tonnage has almost doubled and both harves... More

Sugar cane trains, Nambour, ca. 1910

Sugar cane trains, Nambour, ca. 1910

Deutsch: Sugar cane trains, Nambour, ca. 1910 Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, engine, train, railroad, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort Street schoolboys riding on a model steam train, Sydney, 1927 - Sam Hood (3569721724)

Fort Street schoolboys riding on a model steam train, Sydney, 1927 - S...

Format: photograph Notes: Buy Australian Made Campaign; Fort Street schoolboys riding on a model steam train at the Australian Manufacturers' Exhibition. Find more detailed information about this photograp... More

Goondah to Burrinjuck narrow gauge railway (1907-1910) for construction of the Burrinjuck Dam - 2 foot (610 mm) narrow gauge, 0-4-0, side tank steam locomotive ‘Archie’ built by Krauss in Germany

Goondah to Burrinjuck narrow gauge railway (1907-1910) for constructio...

Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences. Photograph of Krauss steam locomotive 'Archie'. Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, Australia. Goondah to Burrinjuck narrow gauge railway (1907-1910) for construction of the Bu... More

Goondah to Burrinjuck narrow gauge railway - 2 foot (610 mm) narrow gauge 0-4-0 steam locomotive ‘Dulce’ built by Krauss in Germany in 1907

Goondah to Burrinjuck narrow gauge railway - 2 foot (610 mm) narrow ga...

Deutsch: Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences. Photograph of a steam locomotive, 'Dulce'. Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, Australia. Goondah to Burrinjuck narrow gauge railway - 2 foot (610 mm) narrow gauge 0-... More

Goondah to Burrinjuck narrow gauge railway - 2 foot (610 mm) narrow gauge 0-4-0 steam locomotive ‘Jack’ built by Krauss in Germany

Goondah to Burrinjuck narrow gauge railway - 2 foot (610 mm) narrow ga...

Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences. Photograph of a steam locomotive 'Jack'. Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, Australia. Goondah to Burrinjuck narrow gauge railway - 2 foot (610 mm) narrow gauge 0-4-0 steam lo... More

Magnet N°1 of the Mount Magnet Mining Railway, Tasmania, with rear high-pressure cylinders in reversed position

Magnet N°1 of the Mount Magnet Mining Railway, Tasmania, with rear hig...

Deutsch: Magnet N°1 of the Mount Magnet Mining Railway, Tasmania, with rear high-pressure cylinders in reversed position

2424 or 2461 of Whim Wells Copper Mines at the wharf at Ballara (State Library of Western Australia 013988PD)

2424 or 2461 of Whim Wells Copper Mines at the wharf at Ballara (State...

2424 or 2461 of Whim Wells Copper Mines at the wharf at Ballara (State Library of Western Australia 013988PD)

John Fowler narrow-gauge steam locomotive of Rocky Point sugar mill

John Fowler narrow-gauge steam locomotive of Rocky Point sugar mill

Deutsch: John Fowler narrow-gauge steam locomotive of Rocky Point sugar mill. They had got a lot of money from somewhere to generate electricity from burning cane trash and scrap timber. A new boiler, wood cho... More

O&K locomotive N° 3771 of 1909, 'Lily', 610 mm gauge, 0-6-0WT, 50hp, on the Goodwood Tramway, Kalgoorlie and Boulder Firewood Co, Beria, Western Australia (B McMaster collection courtesy Mike McCarthy)

O&K locomotive N° 3771 of 1909, 'Lily', 610 mm gauge, 0-6-0WT, 50hp, o...

O&K locomotive N° 3771 of 1909, 'Lily', 610 mm gauge, 0-6-0WT, 50hp, on the Goodwood Tramway, Kalgoorlie and Boulder Firewood Co, Beria, Western Australia (B McMaster collection courtesy Mike McCarthy)

O&K locomotive N° 3961 of 1910, ‘Amy’, 610mm gauge, 0-4-0WT, 50hp, Goodwood Timber and Tramway Co Ltd, Port Albert, Victoria

O&K locomotive N° 3961 of 1910, ‘Amy’, 610mm gauge, 0-4-0WT, 50hp, Goo...

O&K locomotive N° 3961 of 1910, ‘Amy’ (also known as ‘Anie’), 610mm gauge, 0-4-0WT, 50hp, Goodwood Timber and Tramway Co Ltd, Port Albert, Victoria

O&K locomotive N° 719 of 1901, 610mm, 0-4-0WT, 30hp, in use with a wooden tender in Cairns (Ken Rogers Collection)

O&K locomotive N° 719 of 1901, 610mm, 0-4-0WT, 30hp, in use with a woo...

O&K locomotive N° 719 of 1901, 610mm, 0-4-0WT, 30hp, in use with a wooden tender in Cairns (Ken Rogers Collection)

O&K locomotive N° 731 of 1902, 610mm, 0-4-2T, 40hp, East Murchison United Ltd, Lawlers, WA

O&K locomotive N° 731 of 1902, 610mm, 0-4-2T, 40hp, East Murchison Uni...

O&K locomotive N° 731 of 1902, 610mm, 0-4-2T, 40hp, East Murchison United Ltd, Lawlers, WA

Orenstein & Koppel N° 4631 of 1911, 'Abe', 0-4-0T, 2ft 6in gauge locomotive dumped at Warrentina in Australia (collection Tristan Verhoeff)

Orenstein & Koppel N° 4631 of 1911, 'Abe', 0-4-0T, 2ft 6in gauge locom...

Orenstein & Koppel N° 4631 of 1911, 'Abe', 0-4-0T, 2ft 6in gauge locomotive dumped at Warrentina in Australia (collection Tristan Verhoeff)

Construction of Happy Valley Reservoir dam wall - showing small steam train(GN02847)
Happy Valley Waterworks(GN03000)
Firewood train on Goondah-Burrinjuck line, State Library of South Australia, PRG 2801749

Firewood train on Goondah-Burrinjuck line, State Library of South Aust...

Krauss locomotive hauls a firewood train on the narrow gauge railway (2 foot) to Burrinjuck Dam in New South Wales in Australia. The track was laid from Goondah (a station on the Great Southern Railway, west o... More

Decauville 0-4-2T in Australia 02