Cheng Lee stands proudly with his 2012 Mazda!

Mayne DD17 Nº 954, B18¼ Nº 827, 50 & 915 – June 1968 By June 1968 time was running out for steam in the Brisbane metropolitan area. Deliveries of new diesels saw increasing numbers of steam engines made redundant. Many of these, including (from right to left), DD17 Nº 954, B18¼ Nº 827, 50 and 915 were placed in temporary storage at Mayne Depot. History later showed that most of them never turned another wheel in traffic.

C17 Nº 919 has just arrived at Murgon with K10 Gympie – Wondai goods on 3rd August 1968.

Congrats to Millennia Books in Hanover, Ontario, Canada for winning 2nd prize in the Quirk Classics Monster Mash-Up display contest!

See more photos from the Quirk Classics contest on the Raincoast blog.

The Elsie Quirk Library Youth Department has a full calendar of events planned for June 2008.

Download the June calendar in PDF here, and download the full Elsie Quirk Library Summer 2008 brochure here.

Creating a Florida Wildlife Mural in the style of Mexican artist Rivera Diego:

Volunteer art instructor Carolyn Johnston

See all the Elsie Quirk Library Youth Summer 2009 photos at www.sclibs.net/libraries/eqsummer2009.aspx.

Book Express in Cambridge, Ontario.

See more photos from the Quirk Classics contest on the Raincoast blog.

The Saturday afternoon Toogoolawah to Ipswich goods, 361Dn, was the return working of the previous evening’s Ipswich to Toogoolawah passenger train, 370Up. Here we see C17 N° 917 making easy work climbing Ottaba bank with 361Dn in November 1969. As the first goods wagons were to be attached at Esk, the train is now only comprised of the previous evening’s passenger train load. The water supply at Clarendon was out of commission during the final months of steam working on the Brisbane Valley Line and as a consequence all trains normally conveyed a water truck between Ipswich and Esk. However in the case of the passenger train, the gin was taken through to Toogoolawah and returned from there on the following day.

DEL1557 leads DEL1517 through Clayton on 237Dn Sunlander in September 1977.

South Brisbane DD17 Nº 1049 – 15.12.68 The fireman waits patiently as the water column steadily feeds the side tanks of DD17 Nº 1049 at Platform Nº 3 South Brisbane on 15th December 1968. Time had run out for steam on suburban trains and the usurper stands with a carriage set on Nº 5 Platform. An 1800 Class Rail Motor rests at the far end of Platform Nº 2.

...in a garden wall. Pleasing in the extreme.

DEL1203 and Triple Header Clarke 25.1.69 DEL 1203 with a special passenger train waits at Clarke for DEL1287 and two other members of her class to arrive with another load of export coal from the Moura Mine bound for Gladstone. 25.1.69

Cirque De La Quirk - Isle Of Wight Festival 2016

The train guard dressed in the then traditional uniform including “Foreign Legion” cap has come forward to assist the enginemen by taking water at Murphy’s Creek on 19th June 1966