Wilmar’s new Brisbane locomotive has been commemorated on a limited edition coin.

The 7.6cm coin was produced by train enthusiast and retired sailor Cale Seamer from the Newcastle region in New South Wales to capture the transition from steam to diesel era locos in the Queensland cane fields. It's the latest in a series of commemorative coins he has commissioned.

Cale got in touch with the Corporate Relations team in July after reading about the new Brisbane loco online.

“I’d been toying with the idea of making a coin that shows one of the first steam locos and a modern diesel loco for some time,” he said.

“When I read about the launch of Wilmar’s new Brisbane loco, I thought it would be great to feature the newest sugarcane loco on the coin, rather than just a modern diesel loco.”

Cale reached out to Media Manager Leanne Oliveri, who supplied him with high-resolution images of the loco as a basis for the design.

The end product features a Hudswell Clarke steam locomotive on one side and Wilmar’s new 26-tonne loco, Brisbane, on the other.

The 1925 Hudswell Clarke loco worked at Pleystowe Mill in the Mackay region and is now displayed at the Puffing Billy Museum in Victoria.

“The Hudswell Clarke was my pick for the steam era because I worked on this loco as a volunteer at the Puffing Billy Museum almost every weekend throughout my teen years,” Cale said.

It was such an important part of big part of Cale’s youth that, when he and his wife married, they got their wedding photos taken with the old steam loco.

At 19 years of age Cale enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy and relocated to Cairns, where he learnt about the sugar industry and cane trains.

During his time in the Navy, he traded “challenge coins” with sailors from other ships as a symbol of gratitude and belonging, and to commemorate special achievements.

The trainspotter fused his passion for railways, the sugar industry and the Navy, and was inspired to design railway coins as a hobby, capturing the essence of Australia’s historical railway trains.

There are 100 Queensland Cane Fields coins available at $15 each plus postage. You can buy one via Cale’s website: Home (google.com)

You can also follow Cale’s Railway Coins page on Facebook.

Wilmar launched its Brisbane loco in June this year. It's the first new cane rail loco designed and built from the ground up by a milling company, for cane haulage, in more than 140 years.

It's operating in Wilmar's Herbert milling region.

Two more of the new model locos are currently under construction, with two more planned for 2024.