Mary Valley Rattler Locomotive Workshop Tour 2022

Steam Locomotive Light Up & Workshop Tour. With photographer friend John Abbott, we left Hervey Bay at 04:00 to make the 06:00 tour commencement time. There followed an interesting 90-minute tour around the compound. Operational restored railway rolling stock and locomotives, cars and wagons ranging in a wide spectrum of condition from fully restored through to quite dilapidated and beyond hope of restoration.. A lot of machinery, equipment and materials. We saw C17 Class steam locomotive being prepared for the day's run, with the initial light up burning wood and once heated the water sufficiently, the fireman began adding coal to the fire box.