{UAH} The biggest lies about the Train I believed for many years

Long before I saw the train, I was told at the beautiful innocent tender age of an inquisitive toddler that the suppa-duppa mega engine I only saw in pictures and knew as Gari Ya Moshi towing tens of wagons couldnt derail except by only one method. 

To complicate matters, I was indeed doubtful having watched a few Italian movies at the Catholic Mission - a rare event which, when announced, would draw villagers from distances as far as 7 to 10 km to watch a 1 to 1.30 hr movie (often black/white) trekking on foot by nightfall between 9 and 10pm pitch dark in open church ground.

Italian movies would fill the language gap by showing comical movies that the watcher is left with no doubts about understanding the unfolding events without understanding a word of Italian. Charlie Chaplin and Tarzan, Italian version

By the time I watched Tarzan I thought it was plagerized because growing up near the mission his black/white equivalent that appeared more interesting than the color Tarzan had a hilarious jungle boy character playing a goofy family member to gorillas and rest of Africa user-friendly animals.

Jungle boy was called Bikolo Elefante

Back to Gari Ya Moshi, even my father amplified about the only object that could derail the locomotive Gari Ya Moshi because I saw him use it on a daily basis - sometimes to kill boredom.

It was the good'ol razor blade known as Nacet pictured below. We were told placing just one of these razor blade could derail a Gari Ya Moshi

The second lie was that it was death if you tried to cross the railway line with a train 1 mile away because in front of the train was suppa-duppa powerful magnet that forced you to remain stuck on the rail until it ran you over.

That wasn't a nice story and henceforth I hated the beast even before and without seeing one.

Then shit split. K'jong kido unexpectedly saw the dreaded beast on his first visit to Kampala. I was indeed wowed. It wasn't just seeing the beast but for some weird reason the rail line was a mere 30 meters away behind the fence from big brothers Mbuya army flats.

I was tempted to try a Nacet razor to demystify the myth, then again, fear struck that I would most definitely be hanged by the tail if I derailed such a huge investment

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