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Good Morning, Everybody! It´s ra*ning for a change. With the exception of the few recent nice days, the month of May has shown to be one of the usual wet ones in our neck of the woods. Steven - I think the most influential model railroader for me was John Allen. When I received my first copy of MR back in the late 1960´s, I thought I could not believe my eyes when I saw pictures of his Gore & Daphetid RR layout, which started rather unspectacular in size but grew to an empire of magnificence. Mind you, layouts in my country usually were those table top plywood centrals, covered with a grass mat, a double track oval of tin-plate Marklin HO track with a few passing sidings and spurs, underscale Faller buildings and dreadful Faller plastic fir trees. John Allen´s layout was magic to me and seeing what a layout could look like marked the beginning of me turning into a "real" model railroader. Ulrich´s Train Movie Theatre is living the Asian continent and moves to Australia for today´s feature of Camels and Cangurus - Riding The Ghan The Ghan is an Australian passenger train service between Adelaide, Alice Springs, and Darwin on the Adelaide–Darwin railway. Operated by Great Southern Rail, it takes 54 hours to travel the 2,979 kilometres (1,851 mi) with a four-hour stopover in Alice Springs. The service's name is an abbreviated version of its previous nickname The Afghan Express. This nickname is reputed to have been bestowed in 1923 by one of its crews. The train's name honours Afghan camel drivers who arrived in Australia in the late 19th century to help find a way to reach the country's unexplored interior. Starting in August 1929, The Ghan first ran on the Central Australian Railway originally built as a 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) narrow-gauge railway that ran as far north as Alice Springs. In 1957, the 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1&frasl;2 in) standard gauge Stirling North to Marree line opened between and the Ghan was curtailed to operate only north of Marree. In October 1980 the remainder of the line was replaced by a new standard gauge line, built to the west of the original line. This was extended northwards from Alice Springs to Darwin, opening in January 2004. <iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3yjCh4pRo5Y" width="425" height="350"></iframe> Enjoy!
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