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One of my co-workers just came back from a trip to Kenya, helping install our new wireless modem products. I asked if he could get some photos of trains while over there, and he managed to find a Kenyan Railroad museum in Nariobi, got about 20 pics. Has a few scale model trains, maybe Gauge 1 size, on display there, too. Most of the equipment is 3-foot gauge British, early 1900's. Apparently Kenyans aren't too keen on the railroad, or Brits, so the museum is not in the best of shape. It's located in a man-eating lion area, they posted a sign on one of the cars, a man in 1900 was sleeping in the passenger car, and was dragged out by a lion and half-eaten. Lovely!  Anyway, will get copies of the pics next week, and post them here.
Jerry
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Posted - April 27 2012 : 08:37:29 AM
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| should be interesting to see,they had British locos like the Garratt 4-8-2+2-8-4s,and English electric,but since indepenance Ge have started to filter in ken
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Posted - April 28 2012 : 10:19:17 AM
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Pictures as promised! 29 of them. Here we go....
                       
Above - I'd really like to have one of these bicyclopedes!
  
Above - this seat was special-made so a US President ( Taft? Roosevelt? which was the hunter? ) could go hunting off the front of the engine. What a luxury! I'd think the steam engine would scare off game, but I guess not big game.
 
And this concludes the virtual tour of the Nairobi, Kenya train museum. Thank you for watching, hope you enjoyed the post. Photos courtesy of Dirk Snyder, NSGDatacom employee, lucky B who gets to travel to exotic places these days to do installs.  He also likes trains, so it wasn't hard to get him to divert some attention in his free time to some railroadiana and history. Thanks, Dirk! Much appreciated!
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Posted - April 28 2012 : 10:48:00 AM
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| nice photos,nice to know the Kenyans like there train enough to preserve them ken
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Posted - April 28 2012 : 2:17:42 PM
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O.O I LOVES it <3
What is the gauge down there?
I even loves the articulated locos too
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Posted - April 28 2012 : 3:18:33 PM
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Jerry, Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was our big hunter president next to Dick Cheney if ya get the joke! Cool engines and equipment!
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Posted - April 28 2012 : 6:47:08 PM
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quote:
What is the gauge down there?
I even loves the articulated locos too
Originally posted by microbusss - April 28 2012 : 2:17:42 PM
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It's 3 foot gauge
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Posted - April 28 2012 : 6:48:33 PM
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quote:Jerry, Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was our big hunter president
Originally posted by Redneck Justin - April 28 2012 : 3:18:33 PM
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Ok, yeah, it was Teddy who was riding "shotgun" on the cow (, er , elephant? ) catcher up front, then. Never saw or heard of this until my co-worker got a photo of the evidence.
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Posted - April 28 2012 : 7:06:27 PM
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when you think that those Beyer Garratt 4-8-2+2-8-4s were built before world war 1 to 1930 and are only being decommissioned as we talk about them,its amazing that with the low maintenance they were given that they lasted so long (approx 70/100 years)in full time use ken
blue 0-4-0st is Hugh F Marriott 0-4-0ST
327 Vulcan Foundry ED1 2-6-2T
blue loco is a North British Tribal Class 2-8-2
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Posted - April 28 2012 : 7:40:56 PM
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Does someone make those Garrets in OO/HO scale? 
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Posted - April 28 2012 : 8:05:26 PM
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only ones i know about are a white metal kit and a brass one,neither are cheap,ken
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Posted - April 28 2012 : 10:05:02 PM
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I can imagine Ken OY! Brass is NEVER cheap  & there are several steam I wants but only comes in brass
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Posted - June 22 2012 : 1:59:42 PM
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Thanks, Jerry, for thinking on your feet and asking for these pics. Thank your pal for us too.
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