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\"Tom<\/a>

Arguably the major landmark in Marree, South Australia – the trruck driven by the late Tom Kruze, the famous Birdsville Track mailman.
\u00a9Copyright 2014 Peter MacDonald Photography. All Rights Reserved<\/p><\/div>\n

I have been through Maree many times on my way to somewhere.<\/p>\n

It was the same a couple of weeks ago when I passed through Marree to do a feature for the upcoming R M Wiliams “Best of Outback Stations” magazine.<\/p>\n

Maree is the beginning ( or the end ) of \u00a0the Oodnadatta and Birdsville Tracks – both legendary Outback stock routes and it was up the Birdsville Track this time.<\/p>\n

Maree isn’t quite the bustling town it was when it was a cattle railhead …. or more recently when thousands of tourists flocked north to see flooded Lake Eyre.<\/p>\n

\"Interior<\/a>

\u00a9Copyright 2014 Peter MacDonald Photography. All Rights Reserved.<\/p><\/div>\n

It must have been quite a sight \u00a0seeing Tom Kruze pull out of town at the start of his many epic journey’s up the Birdsville track.<\/p>\n

A movie of his fortnightly journey called “Back of Beyond”<\/a>\u00a0was filmed back in the early 1950s. It is still for sale and an excerpt from the movie can be seen by clicking on the highlighted title.<\/p>\n

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\"Scobie<\/a>

\u00a9Copyright 2014 Peter MacDonald Photography. All Rights Reserved.<\/p><\/div>\n

In the back streets of Marree, the skeletons of less famous vehicles can be found. These too most likely had plenty of tales \u00a0to tell.<\/p>\n

The sign on the door of this old wreck gives a clue to its working history. Allandale Station is up the Oodnadatta Track at the top of Lake Eyre . It would have spend its life carting supplies along the rocky track.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"Scobie<\/a>

\u00a9Copyright 2014 Peter MacDonald Photography. All Rights Reserved.<\/p><\/div>\n

What was even more intriguing was its current location – right next to the bones of an old petrol bowser.<\/p>\n

It is as though the old Chevrolet rolled into the garage and the two died together<\/p>\n

I am sure there was more to this story but time wasn’t on my side this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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