"Woo..."
The roaring steel beast traversing the forests of the Congo Basin, the cast iron wheels grinding out sharp screeches on the tracks.
On both sides of the railway, the lush primordial rainforest forms a stark contrast with the stone-strewn tracks, a wild beauty entwined with civilization spills over in the Congo Basin.
"The Hessen Railway was a great East African engineering achievement of the eighties, taking four years to complete, stretching nearly two thousand kilometers, establishing a connection between the Katanga Plateau and the lower reaches of the Congo River, becoming a major transportation artery for minerals, timber, rubber, and other materials in East Africa. It is the busiest tropical rainforest railway in the world, and the longest railway across a tropical rainforest region globally."
On the train, the soldiers escorting goods and Black people, gazed through the carriage at the boundless green "ocean" and expressed their heartfelt admiration.
