Re: Alice to Darwin Railway, its a comedy show.

["Exnarc" <gwrly@netspace.net.au>]

Terry,

Are you sure there isn't an election in the wind????<g>.

Bob.
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> I know we have the festive season upon us but it is
> more like the silly season here in the Alice.
> Let me list a few of the Alice to Darwin Railway
> stories and happenings up here recently.
>
> "The hills are so steep just North of the Alice Springs
> yards, the trains will have to back out South and block
> the level crossings to get a "run up".!
> Can you believe this.?   I probed around and found this
> was started by the local road transport "lobby".
>
> "The railway will be built from Tennant Creek 305 Kms
> North, and Katherine 660 Kms North respectively, ALICE
> SPRINGS MISSES OUT."!  This one was fanned by the Alice
> Springs Council.  Think about this one for the moment,
> do they think the whole construction crew will remain
> based in Alice Springs for the duration.???
>
> Today the Chief Minister of the NT on a hosing down
> mission chaired a meeting in Alice Springs to extol the
> "real benefits and opportunities" to the people here.
> The conference was advertised in the local press with a
> dirty washed out photo of double track in a cutting
> with NSW clearances.
> Underneath this grotty photo was another with what
> appears to be a retouched model photograph of a US
> domestic EMD GP9 sitting on its 4 wheel bogies with
> Kadee couplers, ...............unbelievable.
>
> There is a whole lot more, I will post later.
>
> ----Terry Burton