The Roundhouse first opened for operations on Sep 29, 1947 and 70 years later, the rail workers, volunteers and enthusiasts who keep it alive are inviting the public in for an open-day, to see just how far they’ve come.

The Regional Heritage Transport Association was established in 1994 after the roundhouse ceased operations the year before. 

Over the years, they’ve collected and meticulously restored close to 20 items of rolling stock, all with an intimate connection to Junee. 

“We have some tour guides in their eighties, most of the volunteers here have worked on the railways and been around this building for a very long time.” museum curator Ron Ison said. 

Vince Hollis, now secretary of the museum started his career as a porter and signalman in Goulburn, climbing up the ranks to hold the position of senior train controller in Junee before his retirement. 

“We were called gods- because we had know everything,” he said. 

“It’s great to see the place still operating and so clean and well-visited." 

Part of the museum’s success is due to the support of the fully-functioning Junee Railway Workshop, who help moving locos and engines in and out of the museum in between servicing more modern trains as they pass through town. 

“Without their assistance we really could not have got where we are today,” Mr Ison said. 

The museum will be open all day free-of-charge on Sunday with 14 bays full of trains, most at least 100 years old, standing proud to mark the occasion. 

“Every item of rolling stock tells a piece of the story of Junee,” Mr Ison said. 

“They’re irreplaceable, many you can’t see anywhere else in the world.” 

A new documentary, Living Rail- In Junee and the Riverina produced by Charles Sturt University’s Professor Ian Gray will be debuted to a small-audience on Sunday and sold in the museum.