Canberra Railway Museum contains a variety of exhibits and includes the yard housing most of the Society’s rolling stock – locomotives, rail motors, passenger cars, freight cars and track-maintenance vehicles. Both vintage and modern stainless steel rolling stock is on display, and visitors are able to walk through the yard to see the rolling stock either stabled in the yard or in the Society’s workshop. Steam locomotives are on display and include the diminutive 1210 (built in 1878 and restored to working order in 1988), which hauled the first train into Canberra in 1914, and the giant 265 tonne Beyer-Garratt steam locomotive 6029. The beautifully-restored tender locomotive 3016, which started life as a tank engine hauling Sydney suburban trains prior to electrification, is usually at the Museum but is currently being rebuilt. In 1930, its side tanks and bunker were removed and it was given a separate tender before being sent to work on country branch lines until retirement at Griffith in 1972, after steaming 3,253,120 kilometres. You can experience the rudimentary comfort of a ‘dog box’ carriage, and American-style end-platform carriages, which ran in Sydney before the “red rattlers” (electric trains) took over. Four diesel locomotives and two vintage ‘Tin Hare’ rail motors are also part of a collection of 8 locomotives and around 40 passenger cars housed at the Museum. - http://www.arhsact.org.au/2016/08/22/museum-exhibits/
