Queensland Sugar Cane Railways South Johnstone Mill

The first in a series of videos featuring the sugar cane tramways of Queensland, Australia , this one featuring the South Johnstone mill near Innisfail in northern Queensland , taken in June 2019

[@joelmartin2549]

Whoa there’s a hole where the engine is supposed to be!

[@nathanroberts1540]

I used worked on cane farms has plantation cane planter for the gordonvale mill cane season

[@FootyOnTheRadio]

what great sounds. do you have any more trains from melbourne? love the port melbourne line you put up driving the hitachi. i love those full trip recordings.

[@johnphillips592]

Yes quite a bit of footage of B & S class diesels taken in the late eighties and some track video , these will feature in later videos

[@RailsandSky]

Is the track gauge 2 ft 6 in?

[@johnphillips592]

All Sugar cane railways are 2 foot gauge except one which is 3 foot six inch featured in another one of my sugar cane railway videos

[@RailsandSky]

@@johnphillips592 Thank you for your quick reply. We did the ex sugar cane, now tourist railway at Port Douglas in 2014. Very enjoyable.

[@Sipd]

The sugar train looks like it has your bus engine from the front and it is not very fast

[@johnphillips592]

Almost Josh.

[@MrPummi88]

3:20 tracks to the right not used an more?

[@ConnorEduard]

Occasionally but not often