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St Lucia Queensland University Press, 1975. first edition - h/c in d.j. The lure which Queensland's century of steam held for so many has never been satisfactorily answered by the diesel locomotive. Although many detractors have referred to the state's railway system as a 'pony' or 'toy' railway, the enthusiasm and pleasure steam trains could engender is shown in the authors humourous and at times highly partisan history. 248 x 183mm., pp. xxii, 217, b/w plates, maps, The Grand Parade of Steam (photographs), index, contents fine, d.j. rubbed top spine, edges & corners, VG.