WanderingAus wandered by on a Sunday drive with The WanderingMrs (aka SWMBO), stopped for lunch at Dwellingup, and heard this loco heading away from me down the line, so I quickly grabbed the camera and gpsr and snapped a shot. Then it reversed, and I realized it was shunting around prior to the afternoon run of The Etmilyn Forest Train, one of the Hotham Valley Tourist Railway trains, so I walked up to the station and took another pile of shots. Annoyingly I was unable to capture any of the big bursts of steam in my dozen photos.



The Etmilyn Forest Train departs Dwellingup Station at 11 am and 2 pm Every Saturday, Sunday & Public Holiday, and also selected days during School Holidays. Due to Fire Restrictions there is no Steam Power from November to the end of April but the Forest Train still runs.

Their web site states "Steam Power on the Forest Train finished on the 19th September for 2009 due to unforeseen circumstances", but the amount of activity seemed to indicate they may have been going to run it as steam. We couldn't wait around to see, but the loco was working anyway, so it qualifies for the cache. There was also a smaller steam loco filling up with water at the other end of the station precinct, but I figured one was enough fror the day.

*Recommended* *Overall Experience: 2*

TFTH Team_Ninja
Keith

Rated: for Overall Experience.