Day 60: Tambo to Cunnumulla, 400km

Southbound again. Cunnumulla was the end of the (Western) line (which now ends at Charleville) and the train was vital to the town until the roads were built (and a truck carrying 50 ton of ammonium nitrate blew up in 2014 causing a Richter 2.1 quake and taking out the road bridge and the neighbouring rail bridge south of Charleville). But the town still thrives and the museums, of course, are great.

Part of the Cunnumulla Off The Rails, All Aboard 3D Light and Sound Spectacular 

The 1956 film Smiley, celebrated in Auguthella

Stopped at Auguthella (where Smiley was filmed, and based), Charleville, a big town, then onto Cunnumulla. There, we visited the Artesian Time Tunnel (and museum) where we learned even MORE about the GAB. The best attraction we went to was the All Aboard 3D sound and light spectacular. Not only was it good, but the story behind it was typical of so many QLD towns we have been through. Local volunteers spent years dealing with QLD rail and governments and local contractors and raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to build a shed next to the old Cunnumulla train station (after they restored it themselves) and have the installation produced. 

Corellas hanging around town

Cunnumulla Railway Station. The job of sculpturing the Cunnumulla Town Band was given to the local welder who had never done anything like that. He used his mum's spoons for the eyes, making them look creepy

Bottle trees, unique to SW QLD (no relation to boabs)

Cunnumulla water tower