The 1920’s saw the arrival of the car in Mackay. Transport had always been a difficulty for people wanting to travel into Mackay from surrounding districts. Bridges were low level and subject to flooding. The Mackay Railway was completed and opened on the 10 August 1885. Locos, an engine with metal cane bins attached, (at first steam then diesel) took cut sugar cane from the cane fields to the Mill for crushing. It was not until the mid-1970’s that a higher level bridge was built across the Pioneer River at Mia Mia that would enable Locos and cars to travel from Mia Mia to Mirani.