58 wagons

The world is beautiful when you’re travel and ugly then you see it on the news. So I’m sitting on a train, as many times before. I’m such a frequent traveler the train company thanks me by giving me free coffee. Well, you know how it works, sooner or later I’ll get enough points for a free journey too. And I read that BBC made a show called Extreme railways. That’s a show I want to see, so you can tell me if you have seen it. If you haven’t it’s, as you understand, a travel show there they go on the world's extreme railway lines. From Congo - is that the railway that’s build in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of darkness? - to the “Iron Ore Line” north of the polar circle in Sweden and Norway. In the last they travel with a 58 wagons long train carrying iron ore. I have seen those trains, yeah they are long. It was that iron ore that was sold to Nazi Germany during a time so dark I don’t need to say more about it. During the same time German soldiers on leave were transported on the same line.*

Ok, even when traveling you see the bad things from history, and current event, but somehow it’s not as bad as the news. Well we know that the news mostly (only?) show the bad things, nothing good. By the way, the rails build in Congo around 1900, have been depicted in other works about the infamous genocide in Congo around that time.

Yeah, I’m no a train, watching a beautiful winter landscape, I’m kind of preparing for giving text response tomorrow. It’s just my habit of updating from trains, that makes me write here too.

*For the records it is often added that the same Swedish government let British and American bombs planes fly over Sweden.