Re: Sugar loco "Bundy" to steam north

["John Browning" <ceo8@rocknet.net.au>]

Sorry, folks.

BUNDY was a Mossman Mill loco that was privately preserved in Melbourne and
Bundaberg before being sold back to Mossman Mill. It was never at
Millaquin.

There is a similar ex-Millaquin loco at Mossman which was obtained by
Mossman Mill for tourist service when steam operations ceased in Bundaberg.

John Browning



Ian Staples <ianst@refer.to.sig.au> wrote in article
<87tunp$tun$1@bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au>...
> In article <38a20072@dnews.tpgi.com.au>, 
> "David Rowe" <drowe@tpgi.com.au> wrote:
> >> Reported in _The Cairns Post_ Sat. 5 Feb 2000, p.13:-
> >>
> >> As part of Centenary of Federation celebrations "Bundy" the steam loco
> >> will attempt to travel from Nambour in SEQ to Mossman in FNQ in July/
> >> August this year utilising the existing light rail network (2' gauge)
> >> of the sugar mills along the route.  The train ("Bundy" and three
> >> covered carriages) will be transported by road where there are no rail
> >> links from one mill area to the next.
> >
> >It's interesting that EVERYBODY refers to this loco as "Bundy".
> >
> >IT IS BLOODY WELL NOT!!!  It is "Pleystowe No 5"
> >
> >"Bundy" was in fact a Millaquin loco, later at Mossman hauling the
> >Balley-Hooley express tourist train.
> 
> I understand and sympathise with your indignation!
> 
> It struck me at the time when I read the article in the _CP_ that the
> PR types were coining a more "acceptable" name that could more readily
> be sold to, and prounced by, the hoi polloi.  ;-)  But in all fairness
> the article did mention its earlier history at Pleystowe and the fact
> it had been donated to the Australian Narrow Gauge Railway Museum at
> Woodford in 1971.
> 
> You are of course correct about "Pleystowe No. 5", but I'm sorry to
> learn of such lack of creativity in loco naming at Pleystowe.  ;-)
> I seem to recall a "Bundy" at Mossman years ago, but I didn't realise
> it had come from Millaquin.  Nor was I aware it had become part of the
> tourist venture at Mossman Mill.
> 
> Cheers,  Ian S.
> 
> ianstDELETE@THISdpi.qld.gov.au
> 
>