MSF Sugar helps keep cane rail history alive

Samantha Campbell
Updated September 20 2017 - 4:42pm, first published 9:00am
KEEPING HISTORY ALIVE: Atherton-Herberton Historic Railway president Bob Slater in one of three retired locomotives donated to the organisation by MSF Sugar. Photo supplied.
KEEPING HISTORY ALIVE: Atherton-Herberton Historic Railway president Bob Slater in one of three retired locomotives donated to the organisation by MSF Sugar. Photo supplied.

The first ever Comeng diesel locomotive built for the Queensland cane industry is among a group of retired locomotives that have been donated to a rail museum on the Atherton Tablelands.

Samantha Campbell

Samantha Campbell (nee Walton) has worked for regional and rural publications across New South Wales, Queensland and the Northern Territory. She is currently writing for the North Queensland Register based in North West Queensland. Email: samantha.campbell@austcommunitymedia.com.au

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