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Hi Capt Carrales The Railways down under are still very hamstrung by some very bad descisions that where made when Australia was individual colonies all the diferent states chose different gauges to build thier lines for purely self interested reasons mostly. So very few could cross stale borders without changing trains going through customs ect. The Federal government chose standard gauge and now all the states are linked with that but there are still trans shipment points all over the place causing problems You even had states that built two gauges in some instances. One well known case of this is the Puffing Billy which from memory is 2'6" gauge when the rest of Victoria at the time was 5'3" Fortunatly Puffing Billy has survived to become a very popular preserved line. As a Foot note the first loco's for this line where Baldwins Qld 3'6" NSW 4'81/2" Vic 5'3"& 2'6" SA 5'3" & 3'6" WA 3'6" small amount of 2' NT when it had a rail system 3'6" Tas some Aussies think this is part of NZ 3'6" National gauge 4'81/2" With the above mess you can see what I mean I think it will be a few years before all is std gauge if it ever happens. Nice to know some Americans do know what my capital City is. regards John
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