Sugar cane train, 1948
Sugar cane train, 1948

Sugar cane train, 1948

The sugar industry is so widespread in the Queensland landscape that it is linked by its own rail system. This locomotive, known as Flash, worked the Proserpine Sugar Mill from 1947 to 1964, and later at Fairymead Sugar Mill and the Qunaba Mill until 1980.

Item ID: 
H20890
Dimensions
Depth: 
7100mm
Height: 
3150mm
Width: 
2080mm

Description: Narrow gauge steam locomotive.

Publication Place: 
South Australia
Publisher: 
Queensland Museum
Rights: 

Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010

Location: 
Australia
Date captured: 
23 November 2010
Date created: 
1 January 1947