Amazing predictions come true on Mount Isa Rail's 90th year anniversary

Derek Barry
Updated April 30 2019 - 4:43pm, first published 2:06pm
The first ever train arrives in Mount Isa in 1929.
The first ever train arrives in Mount Isa in 1929.

The Mount Isa railway turned 90 years old this month, appropriate as it reopens after flooding closed the line for 12 weeks.

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Derek Barry

Derek Barry

Editor, the North West Star

Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.

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