 A tourist attraction, the Steamtown Heritage Rail Centre is now centred on the roundhouse and workshops, its award-winning sound and light show presenting a reminder of the town's former importance as a railway centre.The society was founded in 1977 to run a steam-hauled tourist train service on the Peterborough–Quorn railway line narrow gauge railway between Peterborough and Eurelia using retired South Australian Railways T class steam locomotive, T199.A prime motivation for the project was the return to steam – by its owners, the Pichi Richi Railway, situated 120 km (75 mi) to the north-west – of sister locomotive T186, in 1976.