Any one had experience with traveling interstate by train and hauling your bike across with you?

What's the best way to do that from Perth to Melbourne the cheapest way and is it best to haul it by train or by truck which way is safest without someone damaging my bike?

I've transported a bike interstate by truck a couple of times.  In both cases I used a bike transport service, they generally know the best ways of strapping bikes down to avoid damage.  It also pays to check with them that the bike will be either inside the truck or have a cover on it to protect it from the weather.  Not sure how you'd go about doing it by train but I'd say truck would be easier.

Haven't had to transport a bike east/west but have traveled to Melbourne (via Adelaide) and back to Perth by train on the Indian Pacific.
If i had to do in again i would fly.
The red service is the one i took and while i didn't mind watching the landscape out  the window , it's a long trip and i didn't get a lot of sleep in the reclining seat.
Managed to get some sleep on the floor on the way back.
From what i am told the next service up has a room & beds but is cramped (may have changed since i traveled)
The Adelaide to Melbourne (and back) part of the trip was by bus and from memory the timetables didn't match up that well.
The main reason i traveled that way was to spend time with my father as he didn't like flying.

The older i get the more the pussy i became :( i used to go riding all by myself all over Australia when i was a kid on a 250cc ... and even learnt the hard way what rain season is when i went up north during the hot summer :) oh miss the good ol' days when i was a grass hopper.