Steam at the Zig Zag

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Originally uploaded by gtveloce

The Zig Zag Railway is a section of preserved track that was the main line west over the Blue Mountains until 1910. It zigs and zags up the slope on viaducts, through tunnels and in cuttings, involving the enging 'running around' to alternately go one way then the other. It was replaced by a 'normal' arrangement of consistently descending track that ran through 10 tunnels but posed no such delay. It is now a narrow-guage tourist venture using Queensland locos and rolling stock.

Not a bad place to capture shots of steaming locos... especially in an Aussie winter!