Queensland's Own "Orient Express"

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see side bar in article for pics

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...useum-at-ipswich/story-fnihsrf2-1226724050725

 

[Fading Fast]

Beautiful train - outside and inside. One of the nicest bedrooms on a train that I've seen. Also, the livery is very attractive. Thank you for posting.

 

[MikeKardec]

Besides this cool train, the Ipswitch Railroad Shops are pretty great too. I shot a film there about 10 years ago and the classic turn of the century industrial buildings like this ...



Became the marketplace in a little Borneo river town, like this ...



As we were looking around the newer buildings the director kept saying, we should be shooting some sort of WWII defense plant movie ... they would have looked right at home with tanks on the assembly lines. Wandering around at night you'd come on a huge poorly lit room with a dusty steam engine sitting engine or partially reconstructed cars. It was a great experience.

Inside one of the more primitive buildings ...