Folks, I am sorry, but I know, this one you are going to have trouble believing. But, I tell you straight It happened! Now David just those few word will tell you anything is possible from here – Now David, wanted to take me over to an exciting new place that he had discovered recently with his school mate. Being all of 9 years old, and with a body to match, I was able to sit on his bicycle handlebars as he took me on that long trek to Kalanga Park. Now Kalanga Park was nothing special. A couple of playing fields, a public toilet block and OH yes! a train bridge over a creek. This was the attraction that David had wanted to show me. We all climbed the steep rocky bank, past all those warning signs written for other folk about the dangers lying ahead, to get up to the top of the bridge and onto the train tracks. Now by carefully stepping on the wooden sleepers, we were able to progress out to the middle of the high structured bridge to get to those concrete support columns. From there we lowered ourselves through the train tracks and onto the concrete beams and then we waited.. It did not take long for our target to appear. The 3.42 express train from the city. I still remember to this day the image of that rather bored train driver leaning out the window doing what he had done so often without incidence when, WHAT!!!! There we were, three happy smiling boys in the middle of his train track waving at him as the train approached at 90kmh. Now the sleepers on the bridge were much narrower than those of the rest of the track, so it was important for you to turn your head to the side in order to get it down before the train took it all the way to the next station, which was Nundah. Boy, what an experience! What an absolute exhilarating experience! But, you know, as I write this story, I am mindful of the fact that there is a retired man of many years living in Brisbane somewhere, also telling his great grandchildren of the day his train ran over three little boys.
