Rosewood Rail Museum

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.