Since we had time to burn, we drove to a viewing point before finally going to the train, which left by 09:00:
those steam trains were mostly used to move mining product to Strahan to get to ships
rack and pinion to go uphill and downhill steep grades
a few places allow an oncoming train to cross
the little engine is thirsty uphill
we had a few stops while the engine was getting more water
we crossed paths with the strahan to queenstown train
a tree fell on the tracks, but the engineers had a chainsaw to take care of that :)