Nairobi - Railway Museum

The Railway Museum in Nairobi, located in an old railway building, is dedicated to the history of the railroad in Kenya. A collection of steam locomotives and rolling stock are on display including a model of the MV Liemba, built by the Germans and still in use along Lake Tanganyika. The carriage used during the hunt for the Maneater of Kima in 1900 is exhibited in the yard of the Railway Museum, a familiar story not unlike the Maneaters of Tsavo. In both tales, a lion halted the construction of the railway line by attacking laborers at their camps. The carriage on display was the one in which Captain Charles Ryall, a colonial officer, had positioned himself to shoot the man-eating lion; unfortunately he fell asleep along with his men and