"Whooo..."
The roaring steel behemoth tore through the forests of the Congo Basin, its cast-iron wheels grinding against the rails with a piercing shriek.
On either side of the railway, the lush primeval rainforest stood in stark contrast to the track bed covered in crushed stone. A wild beauty, where savagery and civilization tangled together, spilled across the Congo Basin.
"The Hesse Railway was East Africa's great engineering achievement of the 1980s. It took four years to build, stretched nearly two thousand kilometers, and opened a link between the Katanga Plateau and the lower reaches of the Congo River. It became the main transport artery for East African minerals, timber, rubber, and other materials. This is the busiest tropical rainforest railway in the world, as well as the world's longest railway running through a tropical rainforest."
On the train, the soldiers escorting supplies and Black people looked through the carriage windows at the boundless green "ocean" and could not help sighing from the bottom of their hearts.
Anyone would have been shaken by such an environment. After staring at nothing but this green primeval forest for more than ten days, anyone would eventually have felt lonely and depressed.
There were very few towns along the Black railway line. The monotonous scenery along the way, coupled with the stifling heat inside the carriages, was a severe trial for everyone aboard.
East Africa's development of the Congo Basin was concentrated along its fringes, namely the regions where the basin met the highlands.
This basically matched the population and urban distribution of the Democratic Republic of Congo in his previous life. The Democratic Republic of Congo's status as Africa's fourth-most populous nation was closely tied to these regions.
In his previous life, there had been four African countries with populations exceeding one hundred