Aurizon train gone swimming
 

G'day,
I don't know about boats bashing bridges, but boats are necessary to get into some places due to flooding.
The south eastern region of Queensland copping a torrential deluge of 400 mls in 24 hours.
Roads and rail lines covered by water.
An Aurizon freighter has gone swimming just to the south of Gympie on the North Coast main line.
Smog hollow Sydney has also been copping a deluge.
The Parramatta river being flooded, the River Cat could go wading up Church Street.
Amusingly, the newbie construction site for the to be relocated Power House Museum is flooded.
The Power House Museum housing NSWR Number 1 soot belcher plus some other rail artifacts.
In Pyrmont region of the smog hollow CBD, naturally the land is VALUABLE for development.
So, it was decided to ship the Power House Museum out west to Parramatta.
That has been a controversy.
Opponents now spruiking that had the long delayed newbie museum been open, number 1 would now be floating down the Parramatta River.
Steve.

An update, our ATSB mob have published a brief summary of the incident.
I had wondered how the hogger had got on in getting out of the overturned locos in the water.
According to the ATSB, the singular hogger (driver only operation) survived without any injuries.
https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications...r/ro-2022-003/
If the deluge continues, rail mobs might hafta issue crews with inflatable orange safety vests.