By Sonia Isaacs
THIS year marks the 100th anniversary of the final 1924 run of the Cobb & Co horse drawn mail coach service.
Last week Glass House Mountains resident Steve Ralph, transported one of his restored original 14 seater passenger coaches to Surat in Western Queensland to feature in the ten day Cobb & Co festival celebrating the centenary of the last Surat to Yuleba coach run.
Steve presented a session at the event, ‘The lights of Cobb & Co’, and shared some of his extensive knowledge around the history of the Cobb & Co Coach runs in Queensland. He also provided updates on his ongoing passion project – a huge replica construction of the world’s largest passenger coach, the ‘Leviathan’.
Steve has been constructing the 75 passenger coach in his Glass House Mountains shed for the past five years. No doubt his dash to Surat was an eye-catching feature on the outback roads.