Today, there"s not an animal in this section of Hwange that remembers a landscape without the trains. It"s not unusual to find lions napping on the sunbaked rails or using them for cover when hunting on the plains. So, when the Elephant Express started in 2015, shuttling people to Imvelo"s lodges, Butcher knew it would give visitors a special safari experience. "Park rangers have hitched rides on the maintenance trolleys on these tracks for years," the former Hwange park ranger told me.