Klondyke was probably the smallest steam engine on display at the Newport Railway Workshops Open Day 2026. She is a 0-4-2 steam engine built by Perry Engineering in 1927 as an 0-4-0 (builder’s number 271). The State Rivers and Water Supply Commission of Victoria bought twelve locomotives to use in the construction of the Hume Weir near Albury.
Klondyke was used in the Queensland cane fields, where she acquired the rear axle, before returning to Victoria in 1971. In 2001 Tasmania’s West Coast Wilderness Railway hired Kloondyke, while they waited for the restoration of their original locos. Klondyke now wears a light blue livery that allows her to impersonate Thomas for special events on the Bellarine Railway.
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