American Steam Down Under

George Kaplan · **Posted:** Fri Jun 25, 2004 7:13 pm

Here's an upcoming book of interest from Indiana University Press.

George (N/NW)

American Steam on Australian Rails

Ed Kelley · **Posted:** Sun Jun 27, 2004 6:13 pm

Probably the most interesting American locomotive down in Australia is a Baldwin 4-6-0 running at Dreamworld (a Disneyland copycat park in Coomera, Queensland. It was originally a 4-6-0T used in World War I, it is 2' gauge. It was rebuilt for the amusement park as a tender engine, backdated to look like Disneyland Railroad's #4 "Ernest S. Marsh". The photo below of it is by Mark Gough, former engineer for the Dreamworld Railway.

-Ed Kelley

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Bob Yarger · **Posted:** Mon Jun 28, 2004 11:26 pm

I seem also to recall that a couple of ex-New Haven high wheeled 4-6-0s also went down under, but were finally cut up in the 1960s.

ryarger@rypn.org