"Ernst, something occurred to me. While we've recently been relocating immigrants to Chad, I wanted to ask when you planned to extend the Northern Railway into the Great Lakes Region—or rather, build a super railway running east to west," Prince Karl asked.
This was related to Prince Karl's work. He was now mainly responsible for transporting immigrants to Sigmaringen's Chad colony, so he had to make use of the Northern Railway.
Although the Northern Railway was long, it only went so far. After reaching the Great Lakes area, around Lake Victoria, it came to an abrupt halt.
By the time one traveled from Chad to Mombasa, only half the distance had been covered. The remaining half had to be completed overland, either on foot or by animal-drawn carts.
Naturally, that was a grueling ordeal. And that was merely population migration. If pots, pans, firearms, ammunition, and all the other supplies needed for colonization were included, such a long trek became an enormous headache. That was why Prince Karl raised the matter of railways with Ernst.
"Uncle Karl, of course I've considered it. There simply hasn't been any need to put it into practice. Development in the Great Lakes Region is mainly carried out around the lakes themselves. Transportation centers on the lakes and radiates toward all four shores. That is why our East African Northern Railway was originally built only as far as Kisumu. The rest of the journey can, for now, be handled by water transport," Ernst explained.
However, Ernst's explanation was more or less the original reason for building the Northern Railway, and it did not satisfy Prince Karl.
"Transshipping through Kisumu city certainly poses no difficulty for transportation along the Great Lakes Region's shores, but East Africa is vast! Your territory does not end at the Great