Lou Rae is a Tasmanian author and historian of the West Coast of Tasmania.
His publications have included articles about Rosebery, Tasmania,[1] the Emu Bay Railway[2] Queenstown, Tasmania[3] and the Mount Lyell Railway otherwise known as the Abt Railway,[4] as well as the Sandfly Colliery Tramway.
[5] His publications about railways on the west coast of Tasmania have gone into multiple editions, as well as modifying for the changes in the fate of the railways.
[6] He also has been a postgraduate student at the University of Tasmania, culminating in his 2005 PhD thesis about the Mount Lyell area.
[7][8] His session at The Unconformity event in Queenstown in October 2016 addresses the issues of sources and historiography of the Western Tasmanian region.