<p>Another milestone in the Alice Springs-Darwin rail project will be reached on Wednesday (March 13) when Australia Southern Railroad delivers its first locomotive for use on the project construction trains to the Katherine work site.</p> <p>Two of ASR’s 22 class locomotives named <em>Katherine</em> and <em>Tennant Creek</em> began their historic journey north from Port Augusta last Wednesday as part of the weekly rail train to the project railhead at Roe Creek, a few kilometres south of Alice Springs. </p> <p>Today (Monday, March 11) at Roe Creek, <em>Katherine</em> will be driven onto a specially modified road semi-trailer for the 1,200-km road journey to the Katherine construction site. </p> <p>It will arrive at Katherine on Wednesday afternoon.</p> <br />
