Peter Asiokomweka, 69, was marveling at the machine in front of him.
Mombasa Nairobi are two cities in Kenya
It’s a diesel locomotive because Kenya didn’t have the infrastructure to pull off an electric train. Still, moving at around 65 mph, it is going halve the time it takes to get from the port city of Mombasa to the capital city of Nairobi.
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The rail line was financed with more than $3 billion borrowed from the Chinese government. A Chinese company built it, and a Chinese company will operate it for the first five years. For China, this project is part of a grand plan to revive the old Silk Road. In Africa, China imagines a vast network of rails, from Kenya, through Uganda and Burundi and up to South Sudan that can help it move its goods in and out of the continent with expediency.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/31/530939171/kenyans-cheer-opening-of-mombasa-nairobi-railway