Our host, train enthusiast and well known television actor, Scott McGregor, explores the vast and intricate network of rail lines that built Australia. The viewer will experience through Scott's enthusiasm and easy charm, hidden parts of this diverse country, historic gold mining towns, bustling cities, tropical rainforests and the dry desert outback. From the luxurious Ghan train speeding across the desert to the mining trains of Tasmania, Scott will not only ride on them, but meet the people whose lives and towns are inextricably linked with the trains.