August 15, 2014
The Siam-Burma Railway, also known as the Death Railway was built by the Japanese during WWII in an effort to ship supplies from Burma all the way to Singapore. It is called Death Railway because 240,000 people worked on the railway and over 100,000 died while working on the project. Of the people who died included POW as well as recruited labor.
The train is still used today. We waited for the train, boarded and then went a few stops. We got off the train to meet our drive and headed back to Kanchanaburi. It reminded me of the train I took in Rangoon (the circular line), it wasn’t very fast, bumpy, loud and fun. If I were to go all the way to Rangoon, it would get old very quick.
Sophon, O, and Michael
Train station
Death Railway
Death Railway
Riding the train
Old cars
At least it looks clean.