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Model Trains 

• Railway Modeller's Club of Queensland Inc on the northside of Brisbane. They have clubrooms, layouts, exhibitions, Buy & Sells etc.
    
• Logan Model Engineering Society - Logan City Railway. Ewing Park, Ewing Rd, Woodridge. Running Days for 2003 - 2nd & 4th Sunday of every month. $2 per person - unlimited rides. 10.30am to 4pm weather permitting.
   
• Sunshine Coast Railway Modellers Society Inc Mini Railway Club. SCRMS has a track in Nambour with club meetings and public running days each month offering rides and light refreshments. Locos include both steam, petrol and electrically driven units.

Steam Engines - full size

• Australian Railway Historical Society (Qld Division) - operates steam trains with the Queensland Rail Heritage fleet and maintains an operating museum near Rosewood using former Queensland Rail rolling stock.
   
• SunSteam Inc. was formed in 1992 and operates mainline steam train tours using steam locomotives and wooden carriages from the Queensland Rail heritage fleet. It is also interested in the maintenance and operation of steam heritage traction and associated rollingstock on Queensland Rail lines. SunSteam members have assisted Queensland Rail with repairs to the A10 locomotive and wooden carriages.
   
• Mary Valley Heritage Railway  "Ride The Rattler" scenic tours are operated by The Mary Valley Heritage Railway (MVHR) every Saturday, Sunday and Wednesday from the historic Gympie Railway Station through the Mary Valley in the Cooloola Region.

Other Models & Miniatures

• Loganholme Aeromodellers Radio Control Society
• Pine Rivers Aeronautical Model Society Inc
• Tingalpa Model Aero Club

Train Simulators

• Auran's Trainz Railroad Simulator 2006, plus Trainz collectibles and more games from this leading Australian Games producer. Combine the traditional love of steam engines and trains with modern computing power.
   
• Pikkabird's Trainz Tutorials, downloads, etc

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