{"id":6040,"date":"2014-07-16T07:47:23","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T07:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=6040"},"modified":"2014-07-16T07:47:23","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T07:47:23","slug":"relic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=6040","title":{"rendered":"Relic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a Pioneer Museum in Queensland this week I saw a number of objects that are relics of Australia&#8217;s past.\u00a0 There was the original Dalby lockup, and a cottage with a backyard toilet, an old boxy TV with a remote connected by a power cord, and bones of local dinosaurs.\u00a0 There was also a collection which would normally do nothing for me:\u00a0 one of Australia&#8217;s largest gatherings of old agricultural machinery.\u00a0 But wandering through the open sheds, expecting nothing, I found something.\u00a0 The old beauties in the photos below are really my scene.\u00a0 I would have loved a ride in any of them.\u00a0 Well, almost any.\u00a0 There was this jazzy yellow Ford truck:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/2014\/07\/16\/relic\/yellow-truck-dalby-museum\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6043\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6043\" src=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/yellow-truck-dalby-museum-1.jpg?w=682\" alt=\"Truck, Pioneer Museum, Dalby, Queensland\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A 1957 Chevrolet fire engine:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/2014\/07\/16\/relic\/fire-engine-dalby-museum\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6045\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6045\" src=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/fire-engine-dalby-museum-1.jpg?w=750\" alt=\"Fire engine, Dalby Pioneer Museum, Queensland\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A train whose chugging days are over:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/2014\/07\/16\/relic\/train-dalby-pioneer-museum\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6046\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6046\" src=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/train-dalby-pioneer-museum-1.jpg?w=750\" alt=\"Train, Dalby Pioneer Museum\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And weirder than all of the retired vehicles on display, and one I don&#8217;t want a ride in, is this Chandler hearse, one of only two left in the world.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t say for sure there was no one in that box:<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-6040 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?attachment_id=6049'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/dalby-hearse-2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?attachment_id=6050'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/hearse-dalby-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?attachment_id=6051'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/hearse-dalby-3-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?attachment_id=6052'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/hearse-dalby-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I was in Dalby to speak to someone in the historical society, hoping to find a few relics from my family tree&#8230;\u00a0 On a map, Dalby appears as the centre of a spidery star with numerous roads radiating out from it.\u00a0 Or is it that all roads in the region lead to Dalby?\u00a0 This town is the centre of a great farming region, the Darling Downs.\u00a0 The cultivated landscape is hill-free, tree-free, flat as if it&#8217;s been levelled, nothing but rolling plains of cereal and vegetable garden either side of the road.\u00a0 A few cows and sheep congregate under trees, when there are trees.\u00a0 Dalby was proclaimed a township in 1853, though my pioneering relatives were there a decade earlier, squatting on land, claiming it as their own.\u00a0 It&#8217;s all been divided up and sold off now, but it&#8217;s inspiring to know I had self-starters in my family.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the retirees who run the Pioneer Park Museum and historical society, who care for our relics, for without them we wouldn&#8217;t know about the stages in our development, we wouldn&#8217;t understand the progress we&#8217;ve made and are making every time we try to do something that&#8217;s never been done before, like our pioneers.<\/p>\n<p>See hundreds of relics on the <a href=\"http:\/\/dailypost.wordpress.com\/dp_photo_challenge\/relic\/\" target=\"_blank\">WordPress photo challenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a Pioneer Museum in Queensland this week I saw a 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