This is a little museum some five minutes drive time from Rosewood, Queensland, Australia.
As my wife and I are living in Rosewood in a rental for six months or so (as our home is flood affected), I took a drive up to this museum to see if I could get some photographs of old steam engines. I plan to use some of the photos as a basis for some paintings in the near future.
When I arrived at the gate, I found it was locked and I was sure that I would just take a couple of photos (including the above) and then leave. Much to my surprise I saw the caretaker come out of his house (that was an old train carriage), and walk over and open the gate, inviting me in. He had a bad cold so he told me not to get too close, and he invited me to take as many photos as I liked, and stay as long as I liked. I took up his invitation and roamed all over the museum, took about 20 - 30 snaps and left after about 20 minutes.
I thanked him as I walked back to my car and the old caretaker and his dog went back to his train carriage dwelling.
The caretaker gave me a flyer that said that the museum was open on the last Sunday of every month, when they take one of their steam trains out for a run on the local train track.
