Training Our Eyes On A Diorama At Cunderdin Museum No. 3 Pump Station

The Cunderdin pump station museum is a great introduction into what life was like along the water line that runs just east of Perth to the gold fields in Kalgoorlie. There's an old train car that includes a mini train model. Whoa, meta!

Some details. The point of the museum and railroad line, the all important water pipe.

Woman about to get in her truck. Right, righthand drive. Penned sheep.

Waiting.

And yapping across the fence line. Old style water tank.

Coralling a runaway sheep in the rail yard.

Learning About Moving Water At The Cunderdin Museum No 3 Pumping Station

How do you move water 350 miles by pipe? Time to pump. From just east of Perth in Mundaring to the edges of the Outback in Kalgoorlie, there's a major water pipe. Along the way, a series of pump stations.

The station in Cunderdin is now a museum, filled with items related to the famous pipe and also a semi-random assortment of relics from its wheat belt region, past wars, old closets.

Pump. Steamy.

Early signs of development, a scout tent and tools.

Recreated schoolhouse.

Water pipe details. Pipes were constructed from half sections, threaded with a connector. When steel was in short supply, wood was used, reinforced with external wire.

Tools of the agriculture trade, way back when.