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#QRsteamlocomotives
4D11½ Abt rack class 0-4-2T
Dübs & Co
Built 1898 #339, 340
Both scrapped
Built to assist up and down the steeply graded rack railway section of the Central Western line at Mount Morgan.
#339 c. 1900
hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/14… - #slqdigital @slqld

6D13½ Abt rack class 0-6-0T
Dübs & Co (2)
North British Locomotive Company (4)
Built 1900-15
6 #383, 384, 402, 403, 202, 203
all scrapped
Abt Rack engine pushing the train up the Razorback Range, Mount Morgan, Queensland c. 1900
onesearch.slq.qld.gov.au/permalink/f/fh…

Abt rack railway up the Razorback Range, near Mount Morgan c.1900
onesearch.slq.qld.gov.au/permalink/f/fh…

Passenger train on the Mount Morgan Rack Railway track, 1913 - hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/13… - #slqdigital @slqld
Rack loco at rear of the train.

Section of railway track (rack section) on the Mount Morgan line - hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/74… - #slqdigital @slqld

Goods train travelling on the Rack Railway at Mt. Morgan, ca. 1913 - hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/59… - #slqdigital @slqld

1910 Mail train ascending Razorback rack - Mount Morgan, Queensland
Gregory Cope
flickr.com/photos/3253632…
technically a ' mixed ' train ...

The Abt rack railway route was diverted in 1952 by a regular adhesion railway, which took a longer path to wind up the valley side.
'Abt sub-frame in the storage shed at Mount Morgan Railway Museum on 26 July 2010'
australiansteam.com/QGR Abt.htm

Mount Morgan railway station
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Mor…

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