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December 2022 - Bundy's Last Great Adventure - Bob Gough
Bob Gough will present on the following subject:
Bundy's Last Great Adventure
The presentation started in 1997 at the Brisbane Model Train Show. We were setting up the Woodford Railway Museum Sales & photos stand. The late George Hadley, a well-known person who worked at Moreton Central Mill Nambour was helping set up the Nambour Model Railway Club display & layout. George approached David Mewes & myself & asked would we be interested in helping with the Annual Sugar Cane Festival in Nambour in August 1997. He asked I if we would loan our Bundy Fowler Locomotive No. 5 to demonstrate cane haulage on an hourly basis from Howard Street yard to Nambour Mill hauling 45 or 50 6-ton bins of cane to help keep the Mill yard full.
We said yes we could assist, George responded your Members will have to drive the Loco, oh yes please. The Festival Committee booked 3 of us in to the local Hotel. For one week we did this demonstration each year from 1997 to 2000. That August was the start of the Documentary " Bundy's Last Great Adventure " from Nambour to Mossman Sugar Mill for the rest of August