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A black and white photo of a train going over a river on a rail bridge.

A windmill with sugarcane fields and a mountain in the background.

"But for the most part you really wouldn't have a clue of the extent cane train routes existed."
The Tramway Lift Bridge at Maroochy River is shown mangled and incomplete after flooding in 2022.

Train enthusiast Brad Peadon stands in front of a light blue train in the Philippines.

"I found the line, the trains, then the old mill, which sparked an annual visit, where I would explore more and more."

Clive Plater stands in front of pulley wheels, the few remnants saved from the Maroochy River Tramway Lift Bridge.

British sailors pose on a cane train in Nambour in 1910.

A bridge goes over a river lined with trees and fields.

"It was a picturesque spot, a nice spot to stand at, sail past, take photos or do a spot of fishing."

Moray Fields sugar plantation is shown in 1873, with a railway running through the centre

A black, red and yellow Fowler cane train engine located at the Australian Sugar Heritage Centre, Mourilyan

A 120-year-old Hudswell-Clarke engine crosses a rail intersection in Ingham

Cane trains outside a refinery in Tully, North Queensland

A man in a blue singlet and blue shorts walks through a field looking at rusty railway tracks.

An external image of the Australian Sugar Heritage Centre

A green and black train is returned to its tracks via a crane at The Big Pineapple.

Princess Diana wearing a yellow dress and wide-brimmed straw hat sits on a train beside Prince Charles who is wearing a suit.

A yellow and black train shown derailed and jackknifed from its open-air green carriages.

A yellow cane train with metal carriages crosses a bridge over a river.

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