Re: Alice to Darwin, construction locos.?

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>]

"James C." <thalytgvNOthSPAM@hotmail.com.invalid> wrote in message
news:0671ec78.9188b6d1@usw-ex0106-048.remarq.com...
> In article <392516CA.24414A4A@hermes.net.au>, David & Julie Donald
> <dsjmd@hermes.net.au> wrote:
> > Interesting that it is technically a Northern Territory government
> > site, and
> > that the "home" page shows what appears to be a train led by a NR.
> > --
> > Regards
> > David Donald
> > Springwood, NSW
> > dsjmd@hermes.net.au
> I though that was a DL?????   :-)
>
> Anyway the line will be own and operate by ASR but no doubt if NR
> recieve a contract say from Patrick or BHP, NR might ask for accessing
> this line....Acuatlly you will see NR locos since GSR already said they
> are going to extend The Ghan to Darwin once completed...(Unless GSR
> hire/purchase loco from somebody else...which highly unlikely)

Owned by ASR? I thought that the line was going to be BOOT, which means that
they operate it under a licence for the term of the contract (despite what
the name says, if you HAVE to give it back at the end of the term, you never
really "own" it).

Dave