by Philip Hopkins
"The famous towering trestle bridges of the Noojee railway were celebrated as engineering masterpieces and were among the largest timber bridges constructed on the Victorian Railways."
So writes Nick Anchen, rail historian and train driver (he still drives trains around Victoria, including along the Gippsland line to Bairnsdale) in his new book, "Whistles Through the Tall Timber" – a history of the Warragul-Noojee, Powelltown and Warburton rail lines, with a special look at Warragul, the railway capital of West Gippsland.

The book is a mixture of rail history, social history, enlivened with