Maitland Steamfest
 

A couple of pics from the 35th Maitland Steamfest (2hrs north of Sydney) Big effort by people with several engines transported from interstate, 4 main line loco's on short trips and a heap of gear from NSW. Hopefully other pics will be contributed.
Here you see Doug and me with all our 3" Fowler gear stopped on a roadside - I needed a blow up (shh) - watching the big engines come by. Plenty more so hopefully pictures by others are added.

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We were fortunate with the weather as the forecast had not been great, but the rain held off until the night time, and I believe that today has been sunny.

Here are some of the full size engines, many of which I had not seen before. There were more that I did not get photos of, or the phots were not the best.

There were also 9 miniatures in steam on the Saturday with another couple also in attendance (one in the steam shed on display and one still in a trailer).

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I got to go on a short road run on this engine on Saturday morning that really motors along.

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A very enjoyable time and my thanks to the Maitland club for their exceptional hospitality.

Thanks for sharing

Ditto