Remember two things run through emerald, the river and the railway line so today we go clickety clack clickety clack..

The railway bridge over the river

Now this is under the bridge and I know its faraway but there`s a reason - people are allowed to camp under the bridge for free and its often packed, but I didn't want to get up close and snap photos then make someone angry, so I walked away and snapped one, mind you I do wish I could show you the camping styles, like the people in the ford laser, it was packed to the rafters with chairs, table, cooking stove, tent it was a mighty set up for a little car, the station wagons that look like they'd cease working after 2kms, the utes that have stuff piled high, its really quite the unusual collection of people. They all sit around under the shade of the bridge coz its too hot in their tents but I guess the price is right so they make do.

 We cross this railway line everyday, this is looking west then I turn and look east.

and this is the reason, the life blood of this area COAL

 Its sent by train to the the coast where it is put on a ship and heads overseas, there are trains constantly going back and forth but since the floods washed the bridge out its ground things to a halt and the flow on affects a lot of people because if the coals not moving they don't have a job.

Its super hard to get the length of these trains its not like you get round a bend and wait or get up high its all just flat straight lines out here very boring, but the length of them goes on and on and on

and if you have to get the coal from one side to the other you just build the conveyor built over the highway!

This is nothing to do with coal but it is transport - of a different sort!!  A bridal party's mode of transport here in Emerald!