Nairobi Railway Museum - VIP hot seat

[John Ashworth]

From one of the museum handouts:

"A very unusual item is a bench seat which could be fitted to the locomotive footplate above the cowcatcher to allow distinguished travellers on the line an unsurpassed view of East Africa's scenery and wildlife. Among such visitors were the former American President Theodore Roosevelt and the Prince of Wales". Rumour has it that they didn't only "view" the wildlife but also shot quite a lot of it from their lofty perch on the front of the locomotive.

Photo by John Ashworth 1st March 2008