By | Friday, September 10  2010 at  11:05

The ‘Lunatic Express’ was the name given to the railroad from Mombasa to Uganda built by the British in East Africa. It was called thus because of its wild nature. It had shaky looking wooden trestle bridges, enormous chasms, prohibitive costs, men dropping by the hundreds from diseases, and man-eating lions pulling railway workers out of carriages at night