Just another of the perils working on the Ugandan Railway:

http://www.google.com/hostedne...fM70rpM9TdQD9BNHI103

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Originally posted by Farmer_Bill:
Just another of the perils working on the Ugandan Railway:

Did they actually prove it was the lions eating the people, not Idi Amin?


Kent in SD

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Thanks for lightening up the day Bill. Where do you find this stuff??

Hey Bill, did you see the movie, It's a good one.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116409/

I saw a movie on this starring Stephen Hopkins. Some nice train shots.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116409/


Tigers in India get hungry too sometimes

The rule to being around lions and tigers is:

#1 Always travel with a buddy!
#2.Make sure you can run faster than them!

I would say that Idi Amin has been long ago consumed himself by his own people...LOL!! He would have needed a lot of tenderizer... Just hope they had some good barbeque sauce. Maybe some Sweet Baby Rays'...?????

Did you read the news article that a lion escaped at a circus in town and attacked one of the clowns? The lion let him go because he tasted funny.

They made a movie about this. The ghost and the Darkness I think it was called.Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas.

To avoid big cats:

Stay Home.

oh deer!

http://www.break.com/index/bab...ons-deadly-grip.html

OK then... this is related to trains because the lion had to Chew Chew ?

Lions, tigers, what about bears.

Well, there's one on the front cover of the much-esteemed New York Tribune.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/l...congress/4090178669/

When the Mombasa to Uganda railway was being built, a pair of man-eating lions killed many at the Tsavo River crossing. They terrorized the railway for 10 months before they were killed. The two lions are now on display in the Chicago Field Museum.

The brake van (caboose) from which another lion took a railway construction engineer is in the Railway Museum in Nairobi.

http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail/Kenya/nrm.html

Read all about it in "The Lunatic Express, The Building of an Impossible 600 mile Railway Across East Africa" by Charles Miller.

ChipR

In working on a project in the Dismal Swamp, we had problems with bears destroying our instruments. We were really concerned about encountering a hungry or angry bear and priced out pistols to carry in the field. They were so expensive for such a large caliber, we finally jokingly decided to just get a cheap .22 caliber pistol. The idea was when encountering a bear, see which one of us could draw and shoot the other in the leg first and then run away

The ARR has bear and moose problems!