Echuca Moama Steam, Iron and Trades Revival 2024

Two days of family-friendly fun and entertainment

Amazing live steam exhibits, working horse demonstrations, lost trades, camp cooking, food trucks & licensed bar, live music & free children’s activities all day, and much more.

President’s welcome

On behalf of the Echuca Steam Preservation Society Inc, welcome to the second Echuca Moama Steam Iron and Trades Revival, an event that encourages everyone, young and old, to be part of history.

anks for supporting this great community event.

Together, we are trying to keep lost trades, skills and machines going so that future generations can appreciate and enjoy how they have contributed to the past.

e revival continues the strong traditions founded by the Echuca Rotary Club for more than 50 years, and we are pleased to honour and continue the event for future generations to enjoy.

Our thanks go to all our sponsors and supporters from across the community, with special thanks to our event partner, Moama Bowling Club.

We simply could not have put on this event without all of their generous support.

ere is a large team behind the revival, and I would like to extend my thanks to all the fellow Steam Preservation Society members who work voluntarily and tirelessly to bring the event together.

Everyone in the community is welcome to be involved and come along to this weekend’s Steam Iron and Trades Revival to ensure that it will run into the future for many more years to come.

Yours sincerely

Ed Gibson

Echuca Steam Preservation Society Inc president

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What’s on

The Echuca Moama Steam, Iron and Trades Revival showcases Australia’s rich history and traditions.

Avast array of mobile steam engines will be steaming, including Tinkerbell, a 1911 McLaren direct plough traction engine, which is possibly one of only three surviving in the world and the only one still in working order.

Being a special order in its day, a three-speed Robey road traction locomotive may come down from Wagga Wagga, and as there are not many left in the world, it is a steaming not to be missed.

e Steam Revival Hub is full of non-stop action for the whole family all weekend.

On the hub’s main stage on Saturday, the Echuca Federal band will play, followed by Classic Gospel, Lokki Acoustic, and Snake and Rooster.

Playing on the main stage on Sunday will be Ryebuck and Alister Turrill.

From 10am on Sunday, the Clan McLeod Pipe band will march through the crowd.

e hub is where you will nd many of the weekend’s cuisine, with food trucks galore and the American Hotel

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hosting a licensed bar with local beers and wine from noon each day.

At the hub from 4.30pm on Saturday night, the Echuca Moama Steam, Iron and Trades Revival Gala kicks o with a steam show full of sparks, smoke and heat at 6pm.

After the steam show and new to this year’s steam revival, a troop of re twirlers will light up the night sky.

You will nd children’s activities, including face painting, animal nursery and Schloss’s Toys right next door to the hub.

During the whole weekend, the Echuca 1st Scouts Group will run the bush camp and cook on the edge of the river near the miniature railway.

e Scouts will build a tower over the weekend as part of the bush camp.

e tower will be lit at 2pm on Sunday and spectacularly put out

Just near the Scouts, volunteers will be serving scones, a steam revival favourite, all weekend in the camp kitchen.

e weekend nishes with a grand parade on Sunday at 2.30pm.

To remember the 2024 Echuca Moama Steam, Iron and Trades Revival make sure you pick up your merchandise from the hub.

• Book a one-hour cruise aboard an authentic paddlesteamer.

• Visit our free interactive indoor-outdoor heritage museum.

• Book a guided walking tour that reveals the history of our river pioneers.

• Book a Port After Dark lantern tour to uncover the spirits of the Murray.

• For a special gift or holiday keepsake browse our friendly giftshop.

• 2024 Winter Blues Festival Amazing lineup of artists over two venues

Echuca Wharf – free admission PS Pevensey – ticketed event

Tinkerbell, a 1911 McLaren direct plough traction engine, will be steaming at this weekend’s Echuca Moama Steam, Iron and Trades Revival.

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Fire twirlers will light up the night sky at this year’s revival.

A weekend of historic engines

Neil Hutchison has rallied the Steam Revival’s steam engines.

“I’m an enthusiast, and I’ve had steam engines all my life, and it takes a bit of pulling together to make sure they have all been inspected and are legal to operate and things like that,” he said.

Steam engines are coming from far and wide to this weekend’s Steam Revival, with many travelling up from Gippsland or across from Ballarat.

Neil has a six-horsepower Fowlers traction engine, which was built in 1890.

“It spent most of its life down in Seaspray in Gippsland, then into preservation,” Neil said.

“And then came back up here and was put to work again at Jack Hazelman’s rewood yards over at Tongala or Kyabram, I can never remember which one.

“I have had it for seven or eight years.

“She has never been restored.

“She has always been kept going by the last couple of owners.

“It ended up with Dudley Hazelman after Jack died, and they kept looking after it. “Which is very, very rare in this day and age.

“Hazelmans used to call her Blackie, but the bloke at Seaspray called her Henry.

“Usually, they should have a girl’s name because steam engines are things of beauty.

“Fowlers were very well known, probably the most numerous ones to survive, probably the equivalent of Holden’s in their days’, tough and reliable.

“A lot of companies would nance them and things like that, whereas other companies had to buy them straight up, and that dictated which ones survived.

“We had thousands of them in this country at one time, and they were everywhere.

“Fowlers made plough engines, portable steam engines, railway locomotives, and all sorts of things.”

Having been brought up with steam engines, Neil is keeping steam engines going for future generations.

“Dad was right into them,’’ Neil said.

“He was a shipwright for many years, and then the steamboats and engines were the natural progression.

“When we were kids, we used to bust an arse to get up to the steam rally every year, and it was just great back then.

“It was a great family thing.

“A lot of people, with steam engines running here, there and everywhere.”

Echuca Steam Preservation Society Inc. president Ed Gibson, Echuca Moama Steam Iron and Trades Revival organiser Scott Spedding and Neil Hutchinson with ‘Blackie’ a six-horsepower Fowlers traction engine.

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SATURDAY, JUNE 8

10.00am-7.00pm Gates Open

10.00am All Exhibits Live

10.00am-11:00am Federal Band - Main Stage

10.00am-1.00pm EMFM 104.7 Live Broadcast (Trade Shed)

10.00am-3.00pm Face Painting by Lavender Rose 10.00am-3.00pm Animal Nursery - Billabong Ranch

10.00am-4.00pm Miniature Train Rides

10.00am-4.00pm Working Horse Displays

11.00am-12:30pm Classic Gospel - Main Stage 11:45am Aerobatics Display

Michael Jones - Pitts Special S1T

12:30pm-3:30pm Lokki Acoustic - Main Stage

2.00pm-3.00pm

Parade - Arena - Restricted public movement in/out arena

4.00pm-7.00pm Snake & Rooster Duo - Main Stage

6:00pm Steam Show & Fire Twirling -Revival Hub

7.00pm Close

SUNDAY, JUNE 9

9.00am-3.00pm Gates Open 9.00am All Exhibits Live

9.00am-3.00pm Miniature Train Rides 10.00am Clan Macleod Pipe Band (Roving) 10.00am-12noon Ryebuck - Main Stage

10.00am-3.00pm Face Painting by Lavender Rose

10.00am-3.00pm Animal Nursery - Billabong Ranch

9.00am-3.00pm Working Horse Displays 11:45am Aerobatics Display

Michael Jones - Pitts Special S1T

12noon -3.00pm Alister Turrill - Main Stage

2.00pm Scouts — Burning of the Tower

2.30pm-3.00pm Parade - Arena - Restricted public movement in/out arena

3.00pm Close

Emergency Assembly Point

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IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTICE

-BE SAFE - ENJOY THE REVIVAL

Children must be supervised, and dogs on short leads at all times. Please put rubbish in the bins provided. is event has operating steam exhibits, vehicles, machinery and horses. Do not enter machinery or horse compounds under any circumstances. Please make sure you follow instructions from Marshalls. If you are unsure of your safety, please ask one of our friendly marshalls for assistance.

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Clydesdales and carriages: A journey through time

Ironbark Clydesdale Stud owner Darren Phelan has his own museum, with a collection of 40 horsedrawn vehicles in the shed.

“We have a Swan Brewery beer lorry that turned into the Colonial Brewery lorry,” Darren said.

“We have a CUB lorry, three Cooper Brewery lorries and a couple of stagecoaches.

“It is like a museum.

“I have been collecting them for over 40 years and have vehicles from all over Australia.

“We would like to keep the carriages going because it is dying o .”

For the last 12 years, Darren and his purebred Clydesdales have been taking part in the steam rally.

“Before the steam rally became the steam revival, we used to drive the horses in,” Darren said.

“I have an American chuckwagon, and we used to drive to the steam rally over four days, leaving from Kotupna.

“We would spend three

days along the back roads, travelling along the Murray, and then draw into the steam rally.

“ en we would do things with the horses at the rally.

Darren remembers fondly the horses helping to put out the ‘dunny’ re at past steam rallies.

“ ey used to have a dunny that they would put a pile of hay in and burn in the middle of the grounds,” he said.

“ ey would bring an old horse-drawn steam re engine up from Melbourne, and I’d put a pair of horses in that and tow that to the dunny, which was on re.

“And they would put it out the old way with the steam engine.

Darren will bring along four horses, Jacob, Billie, Max and Chester, to this year’s Echuca Moama Steam, Iron and Trades Revival.

“ ey should earn their

keep, but for me, it is a hobby,” Darren said.

“ ree of the horses are 16 years old and the other probably 11 years old.

“ e horses are starting to get some age on them, so now we have three young horses at home, two two-year-olds and a 12-month-old, which are

getting broken in and trained, so we can bring some new horses through.

“Once they are harnessed, they are all settled, and they just do what they want to do.

“ ree of them are 18 2 hands and the other ones about 18 hands. is weekend at the Echuca

Moama Steam Iron and Trades Revival, you can see Darren, along with his Clydesdales, Jacob, Billie, Max and Chester, in the working horse arena working the log buggy and doing other jobs to earn their keep.

Create an adventure: Schloss brings handmade toys to life

Schloss Good Ol’ Toys and Collectables owner Tim Schloss has been whittling and sanding wood since he was 10 years old.

Tim brings his hands-on, make-your-own toys to the Steam, Iron and Trades Revival.

Initially, he started teaching people to make toys when local kids came into his workshop and asked him to teach them how to make their own toy swords.

“I’m just the one who makes the imaginary adventure toys and tools for others to enjoy,” Tim said.

“Children would come to me, and we would make swords, and I would take them through a whole lot of di erent woodworking skills.

“At markets, kids would come by and look at me nishing o my swords because I never had time to nish everything. “ ey would start sanding and then want to choose the colour of the leather to put on their sword.

“ ey ended up bringing about this personalisation of the sword.

“It became, little by little, an event in itself at markets and bigger fairs.”

Open to all ages, from little kids to people who are still a child at heart.

Over eight di erent stations, you will nish o your own sword, including sanding, naming and blackening.

“Dads often like to hold the letter stamps while the little ones whack the end of it,” Tim said.

“Parents can be involved, but primarily as support and guidance and the memory takers.

“ e idea is to encourage kids to get involved and learn a whole lot of skills.”

Making your own sword is not the only handmade wooden toy Tim will have at the revivial.

You will be able to purchase a range of Schloss Good Ol’ Toys and Collectables, including Castle on the Hill, wooden

puzzles, hopping kangaroo, replica wood Kelly guns and hobby horses.

“I’ve got four di erent Ned’s adventure tools that he used to cart around with him, one is a replica of Betty, which they picked up at the Euroa bank,” Tim said.

“ en there’s the apprentice ri e that Harry Power gave him, a sawn-o ri e and the navy revolver and short pistol.

“ ey are all wooden toys that are burnt and made to look old, but not too close to guns, but they de nitely look a bit the part and like an old ri e.

“I probably won’t have the workshop for those (Kelly toy guns), I will just have those all nished.”

Schloss Good Ol’ Toys and Collectables is in the kids’ zone in the Rotary Park Oval.

Clydesdales pull a wagon during the 2019 Echuca Moama Steam Rally at Rotary Park. Photo: Cath Grey

Tim Schloss in action making the old school toys.

Echuca Vintage Machinery Club showcases rare engines

Echuca Vintage Machinery Club president Allen Neilsen has been interested in vintage engines his whole life.

This weekend, he will be at the Steam Revival with his New Way, stationary threehorsepower engine.

“I have old engines on the farm, shearing plants and pumps and whatnot from over the years, and I got into the hobby of collecting and restoring them,” Allen said.

“I bought it from a person in Cohuna, and it had been in a very bad state of repair for probably 50 years.

“We rebuilt it right back up to running order, and it runs beautifully now.

Allen re-built the engine, with his son, Phillip Neilsen, who is also a vintage steam engine collector.

Allen has an up-side-down Temple Master Workman engine, that he thinks may be one of the last in the country.

“It is an upside-down engine, what we call an inverted engine, eight horsepower, that was built in 1915,” Allen said.

“We can’t get much information about it, but we know that it is possibly the only twin-cylinder design left in Australia.

“My mate in Queensland had one, and he sold it, and it went back to the United States, but his wasn’t complete.

“It had been doctored, whereas ours is virtually standard.

“I had it 40 years before we got it running, and we bought it o an old engineering shop in Elmore.

“It was in 101 pieces, and that’s why it took us so long to complete it, as we had to make a lot of the parts for it.”

At the Revival, each member of the Echuca Vintage Machinery Club is limited to bring three engines, due to the room needed for the display.

“Because I am the boss of the engine section, I’ll take two that are pretty simple to run, but Phillip will probably take three,” Allen said.

“We probably have a collection of over 100 and would have the biggest collection in the club.

“One of our engines weighs about six tonnes and we don’t take him to the rally very often because his fuel costs $9.60 a litre.

“It is home kerosene.

“It was built in 1905, so it is well over 100 years old.”

Like many vintage engine clubs, Allen would like to get more junior members and thinks the revival is the ideal place to get the kids excited about vintage engines.

“We have a junior member who just started and is 12 years old,” Allen said.

“He’s got a collection of

Scones a must-eat to revive

K

erry Hutchison has volunteered to make the scones for this weekend’s Echuca Moama Steam, Iron and Trades Revival.

And you all better be hungry because she expects to whip up 3000 of the u y, buttery delights over the weekend.

“My preferred way to make scones is with the cream and lemonade,” Kerry said.

“And they are mostly going to be cooked on the wood re down at the camp kitchen at the rally.

“We have a truckload of people helping.

“ e Rushworth Machinery Club are going to help and a lot of my friends.

“Scones are just an Australian thing, and to be cooked on the wood stove will be nice.”

You will nd the scones between the miniature train and the working horse in the camp kitchen.

Now, do you want cream and jam or jam and cream, or as many like their scones, just with butter?

Pop down to the camp kitchen and make sure you get your serve of scones!

about 10 engines at the moment, and he has had his rst rally at the Port.

“We are always looking for members that are interested in club business.

“We have about 30 members at the moment, and there is plenty of room for more if anyone would like to join.”

Echuca Vintage Machinery Club president Allen Neilsen and his son Phillip Neilsen are both long-time vintage engine enthusiasts and collectors.

Scones, is it cream before jam or jam before cream?

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