Monday 21 May 2018

Bulawayo Railway Museum. 

This is a place that would have greasers (train enthusiasts) getting very exited about as it is the home to many of of the locomotives and carriages that are no longer needed or simply have out lived their usefulness.
 A hand worked casey car that visitors could try out.
 Just one of the many wagons that are on site.
 And then there were dozens of locomotives who stand idle in the sidings.

 The hand operated casey car being worked by a couple of girls.
 And then some of the top exhibits such as Cecil Rhodes own carriage.
 And some fun exhibits such a as this trolley to take ladies to the market.
 A side view of a hand operated wagon.
 And then just a few photos of carriages.

 And of course a few photos of some of the engines that made the long journeys to export the grain and maize that could be grown in the fertile soils of Zimbabwe to feed southern Africa if the government wasn't so incompetent and corrupt.




 And some work-a-day items such as  this crane.
 And a hospital carriage which was part of the excellent health system that Zimbabwe had before Robert Mugabe's  government so mismanaged the economy so as to bankrupt the country.        

                                      

 Inside Cecil Rhodes carriage.
 And more news of carriages and rolling stock.
 First class carriages.

 One f the many giant locomotives that pulled trains across the savannah bring exports to the ports on the South African coasts.



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