On the topic of long closed and proposed rail lines… The following proposed Nerang Murwillumbah railway routes, with July 1900 in the surveyor's handwriting, is available as a 5mb JPEG from my

Dear all, I've just come back from Germany. 'Several' photographs were taken... I have uploaded a couple of collections to Flickr: The 15" gauge Dresdner Parkeisenbahn is

Light Railways 256, August 2017, was packed last night, and is now in the hands of Australia Post. The packing process was a little complicated as we needed to send reminder letters to those who

Impossible to forget such outstanding work. What is your current recommended way of accessing it? The railpage links (or at least those known to me) do not appear to work.

Thanks guys for remembering my work. Yes, I am a member here, and I keep a close eye on what's going on, and I regularly incorporate comments from here into my work. I'm happy to help anyone if they

As many know, the Queensland Main Roads Commission built major infrastructure including roads, railway items, aerodromes etc throughout the state in WW2. This is covered with both detailed text and

Those skips match the ones in the pictures in John Browning’s ‘The Southport-Burleigh road construction tramway’ in LR213 June 2010. That wonky caption about the hinterland came with the

Hi Kevin, A work in progress. Adding bits as time permits. https://maroochyshiretramways.wordpress.com/ Brad -- Websites that your life would be incomplete without - Improve your life,

“Hairyleg’ has mapped cane railways in Google Earth quite extensively (and also all other Australian railways). I downloaded his Google Earth overlay file updated to 20/10/2016 from

Hi Kevin, 'HairyLeg' (who I think is a member here) has developed a Google Earth KML file of all railway (and tramway) tracks in Australia which can be downloaded from

Following the recent discussion about Google Earth, mention was made of superimposing tramway maps onto current Google Earth. Is this currently available on-line, a work-in-progress, or just an

Alleged to show the construction of the Pacific Highway in the Surfers Paradise hinterland - circa 1925 (SLQ) Courtesy Vintage Queensland -- Cheers, Kevin Blowing out someone else's candle does not

A picture of the Wyndham jetty shunter amongst wagons is on the following Airways Museum & Civil Aviation Historical Society website regarding an article of Air Beef

For those who use photo sharing service, Flickr, the University of Newcastle sends out updates of some of the sets of images newly loaded onto their site. There’s always something

Peter, Many thanks for that. Had not given much thought to it when I started playing around with the idea of a Moreton Mill website. I started mapping out the tracks mostly to aid my

Hi Brad, I checked the Google Earth website for the rules you mentioned and agree with your understanding that the hobby not for profit use of GE and your acknowledgement of GE as the source, would

Hi Brad I've worked through the t & c s in the past when preparing material for the magazine. Google doesn't seem to make things too onerous and what you are proposing sounds right from my

Hi everyone, Just want to put a question to the collective knowledge here. The last couple of days I have been reading through the Google rules governing the use of Google Earth

1917 Southside Brisbane track profiles including many closed or greatly rebuilt lines so broadly part of LRRSA interest areas. They also show track gang areas. These are courtesy QLD State Archives

Chris., they would be former bogie wheels from a couple of steam logginglocos. that worked in the Lunawanna area. You can find the full details in ScottClennett’s very good book, “Engaging the