The idle musings of a former military man, former computer geek, medically retired pastor and now full-time writer. Contents guaranteed to offend the politically correct and anal-retentive from time to time. My approach to life is that it should be taken with a large helping of laughter, and sufficient firepower to keep it tamed!
I’ve ridden the rails in much of Africa, and I thought I’d seen just about the worst, most ramshackle, most unstable rails, rail cars and locomotives one could imagine.
I was wrong!
How do they stop the local animals (particularly hungry ones) from joining them? That was frequently a problem in Africa!
Peter
Wow, just… WOW… and what do they do when they meet someone coming the other direction???
Old NFO – perhaps it would lead to an 'interesting' game of 'chicken' – maybe the loser would feed the local tiger population!
OTB MCPO sends………..
That is bamboo that is the platform they are riding on. That bamboo is tough stuff. Also, this this the example of the end result of the california,(mexafornia actually), high speed rail authority that is coming to the Centrial Valley of california soon.
Heltau
This is a much better vid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4qttp6nDts
It sort of looks like fun to me…
but the problem of oncoming traffic would be a concern.