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I know a little bit about Australian history, thanks to my Aunt Clara. Similar to Canada and its western provinces, a transcontintal railroad was built in Australia along its southern coast to Perth. Otherwise, the state of Western Australia would not have joined the Dominion of Australia. It wasn't much later that a line was built to Alice Springs from Adelaide. During World War II, General Douglas MacArthur took that train, as he was not fond of airplanes. The train he took averaged less than 20 mph, as the line was in very poor shape. However, recently the railroad line has been moved east and rebuilt, so that it doesn't flood in Lake Erye, which is dry most of the time...... This line is not being built for freight traffic. There isn't much out in the outback. This line is being built from Alice Springs to Darwin for national defense. Australia Pillabra, its rich resources of iron ore is on its northwest coast, and two railroads were built in the late 1960s to serve the mines directly with short lines to the coast. Practically every year America and Australia's armed forces hold an exercise with the Aussies attempting to hold its iron ore resources. Iron is to Australia as oil is to the Middle East. Australia is hard put to defend this resource, because its a long way from its airforce, naval, and army bases located on its east coast. And without a railroad, its difficult to move its armor forces to defend the northwest region. Its naval forces could take over a week to reach the area. While the Pillabra is still vulnerable, at least with this new rail line to Darwin, Australia will be able to defend Darwin better....
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