BB18 ¼ 1079 - QR 150th Steam Train - Cairns to Kuranda - 16/02/2015

In 2015, Queensland Rail celebrated 150 years of Rail in the state of Queensland. To mark the celebrations, a steam train hauled by the freshly overhauled BB18 ¼ 1079, hauled a train from Brisbane up the Queensland coast to Cairns and Mareeba and return. On Saturday 16th February 2015, the train made the climb up the scenic Kuranda Range on its way to Mareeba. The locomotive can be heard to slip quite often and we actually stalled a number of times due to the wet and oily rails.