| Rule303 |
| (.416 member) |
| 02/06/17 09:58 AM |
Re: Lunatic Line II
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The Chinese are planning on building a railroad between Mombasa and Nairobi. I wonder if they have read Patterson's "Man Eaters of Tsavo".
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/l...0ao0407m%2e1v65
Didn't Rhodes want to do something similar?
The bit about the effect of salt water sand in the cement for the sleeps sounds correct. My father was a Civil Engineer so got to learn a few do's and don't. That was one of them.