Year 1961. Class C19 type 4-8-0 #702 at Harristown yard near Toowoomba, facing north. This locomotive was named "Centenary" in 1923, because it was the 100th locomotive built by the Queensland Railways workshops at Ipswich near Brisbane.** Note the tarpaulin covered wagons, a typical feature of Queensland goods carriage.

I'm a guy who's run a few gauntlets, made a few friends, and generally amassed very little of anything apart from memories.
So I thought I would share some Queensland, Australia images that I managed to preserve on photograph from when I was 15 years old. I still get a great deal of pleasure from these, because they were usually taken before or after school with a little postwar 2.1/4 square twin lens Russian made "Lubitel" camera. Then my dad would help me fix up the bathroom in the evening to process the negatives and run some prints.  

I sold vegetables grown in the family garden, around the neigbourhood, to pay for the film and the chemical stuff. I can still remember my marketing catchcry "These are a little cheaper than the green-grocer, but they've only just been picked, so they are MUCH fresher". We even competed against the kids next door, but always managed to knock on doors on different days, or in different streets. There was an unwritten rule that there was some business for each of us.

Other railway interests

Lockyer Creek bridge in Queensland - Model and Real