I have some photos of the Kenya & Uganda railway taken in 2005, when I undertook a survey of the entire route. I can send you a selection if you can give me an e-mail address.
Regards
Martin Allen
Rev. Farnsworth, I think I mentioned how a few years ago, I was riding from Salzburg to Munich-Ost on a Bayern Regional and how at Rosenheim, this young Ugandan gal sits next to me.
Turns out, she was London School of Economics educated, spoke the King’s language better than I, and was with the Ugandan Transport Ministry.
She told me about “all the great plans” they have for railways; “all we need is funding”. She was interested in US railroads and wondered why there was no electrification. I said to her electrification is confined to passenger trains between Boston and Washington as well as selected regional transit lines in Chicago and San Francisco. So far as transcontinental lines, only the railroad I was once with (MILW) had such, but it was at best, a “mixed success” and was abandoned. I showed her some phone photos of US motive power handling the sized trains we regularly operate and how there would need to be many substations in order for electrification to work over in The States or Canada.
Well, here comes Munich-Ost and I’m getting off for a flight home; and that was that.
Roger Farnworth 
I have some photos of the Kenya & Uganda railway taken in 2005, when I undertook a survey of the entire route. I can send you a selection if you can give me an e-mail address.
Regards
Martin Allen
Hi Martin, thank you. That would be great.
My email address is:
rogerfarnworth@aol.com
Best wishes
Roger
Martin ~
That would be great. I’m researching an ancestor who left India around 1904 to work on the Ugandan Railways, so the dates will be spot on.
Tricia
Rev. Farnsworth, I think I mentioned how a few years ago, I was riding from Salzburg to Munich-Ost on a Bayern Regional and how at Rosenheim, this young Ugandan gal sits next to me.
Turns out, she was London School of Economics educated, spoke the King’s language better than I, and was with the Ugandan Transport Ministry.
She told me about “all the great plans” they have for railways; “all we need is funding”. She was interested in US railroads and wondered why there was no electrification. I said to her electrification is confined to passenger trains between Boston and Washington as well as selected regional transit lines in Chicago and San Francisco. So far as transcontinental lines, only the railroad I was once with (MILW) had such, but it was at best, a “mixed success” and was abandoned. I showed her some phone photos of US motive power handling the sized trains we regularly operate and how there would need to be many substations in order for electrification to work over in The States or Canada.
Well, here comes Munich-Ost and I’m getting off for a flight home; and that was that.
Thank you, Gilbert