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Came into Brisbane city proper today because it’s the ekka show holiday and they’re running steam-hauled trains on the exhibition loop.
So took the train to Bowen Hills, and when I got off the loco was literally passing in front of me o the other side of the platform. I wasn’t quick enough to get a pic of the loco, but here’s the carriages passing.
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A red wooden passenger carriage passes by the camera, the steam loco hauling it has just disappeared around the corner

Lisa
@TicklishHoneyBee@twoot.site

A little bit of train chasing, and I caught her just out of the city tunnels on approach to fortitude valley, at the exhibition station, and then at Roma street station.
Some video will follow after editing.
This is BB18-1/4 class pacific number 1089, the last mainline steam locomotive built in Queensland.
Unfortunately, of the two options they had for passenger carriages, they picked the fancy looking wooden carriages, not the wheelchair accessible stainless steel ones.
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Photo through a black metal fence as a green steam train passes, with a train consisting of the loco and tender, a water wagon, and several red wooden passenger carriages.

Photo taken of a green steam train standing at the station in the Brisbane exhibition grounds, the rides and pavilions of the show can be seen surrounding the tracks.

The same steam train is seen standing at platform ten of Roma Street station, views from a nearby overhead walkway.

Lisa
@TicklishHoneyBee@twoot.site

Once more around the loop and she’s back to do it all again.

I may have spent a while grumbling about the fireman; who decided the best time to fire the loco was just before entering tunnels with underground stations.

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A green steam locomotive stands at platform ten of Roma Street station in Brisbane exhibition grounds, the loco is billowing clouds of brown-grey smoke into the air.

The same loco just pulling away from the station

The loco now closer to the camera, with the overhead wires no longer blocking the view of her well polished paintwork.

Lisa
@TicklishHoneyBee@twoot.site

After leaving Roma Street station, the tracks immediately enter the inner city tunnels; other than a short section of open air at the end of the platform at Central (where I'm standing) this is several kilometres of underground.

So here's 1089 making her way through Central station.

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