Place Type
Recreation - Tourist Attraction
Location
178.5kms West of Brisbane - Driving 209 km (2 uur 35 min.)
741.13kms North of Sydney - Driving 962 km (10 uur 43 min.)
Address & Contact
17 BLACK STREET
DALBY
Phone: 07 4662 4760
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Web: N/A
Information
Pioneer Park Museum - Dalby Information
The Machinery Sheds house at Pioneer Park Museum Dalby is possibly one of the largest collections of operating tractors and agricultural machinery in Queensland.
Pioneer Machinery now on display includes late 1800s model working thrashers and elevator, 1950s model reaper and binder, pre-war hay baler, early hand and power driven cornshellers, oil and petrol engines.
Tractors - John Deere, Fordson, Case, Massey Harris, McCormick Deering, Cletrac. Headers - Tractor driven (PTO), Self propelled (AUTO). Fire Engines - 1957 White Chev, A 1980 White International one of the last white fire engines being used by the local fire department. Tools - View the display of many old hand tools and implements used in the early pioneering days of Dalby and the Wambo Shire area.
The newest display is an old Chandler Hearse, one of only two left in the world, the other one is on display in America.
Walk through and experience the colonial memorabilia housed in authentic buildings. The many buildings at Pioneer Park are original colonial construction and have been moved to the Park or rebuilt from original materials.
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