This train on the RER C line between Montigny-Beauchamp and Invalides crosses the Seine on the Rouelle bridge

The loaded and empty ore trains between the town of Nouadhibou on the Atlantic and the area of the mines in the Zouérate region have always been used by the locals, like her on the train M4, as t... (more)

Empty ore train "V5" including some loaded water tankers nearing Ben Amira at PK 394 of the 650 kilometer long single track railroad from Nouadhibou to Zouérate. Pulling are SDL40-2 loc... (more)

After climbing a steep hill all the way up to Kurkimäki, the class Dv12s are finally able continue their smoothly with the 24 wagon long timber train. As the train begins to get more speed, the q... (more)

As morning dawns in the Mauritanian desert in Boulenouar at PK 95 at 07.18 AM, there is fog on the ground. The work train with new concrete ties and the GPL-15T CC # 210, which had arrived from No... (more)

The GPL-15T BB # 204 of the SNIM, built by EMD and Super Steel in Glenville, New York, in 2004, pulls a short ballast train south of Nouadhibou.

In front of Africa's largest monolith, the about 540 meter a.s.l. Ben Amira, which rises about 370 meter above the desert, the empty ore train "V5" (vide train # 5) from Nouadhibou to Zouérate is... (more)

The "Train du Désert" with GPL-15T BB # 207 stands in the stub track of the Boulenouar station on PK 96 of the 650 kilometer long railway line from Nouadhibou to Zouérate. It will depa... (more)

In front of the SNIM workshop in Nouadhibou we can see american built diesel power from left to right: GPL-15T BB # 203, BB # 201, SD70ACS CC # 124, GPL-15T BB # 207, SDL40-2 CC # 110.

The Train du Désert stopped in the middle of the Mauritanian Sahara desert near kilometer 517, between Choum and Tuadschil, so that some of the guests of the SERVRAIL group could change in the dr... (more)

Through the Mauritanian desert, about 10 kilometers east of the Ben Amira monolith, a two to 2.5 kilometer long loaded iron ore train approaches from Zouérate/F'derîk to the port of Nouadhibou a... (more)

When the 650 kilometer long railroad line was built in Mauritania between 1960 and 1963 to develop the iron ore mine near Zouérate, a total of 21 six-axle diesel locomotives were procured from Al... (more)

SDL40-2 locomotive CC # 107 of the SNIM in shunting duty at F'derîk.

It is little known that for the railroad line in Mauritania from the port of Nouadhibou to the ore mining area near Zouérate, which was built between 1960 and 1963, in addition to the large CC ma... (more)

Train encounter in Choum at PK 459 of the 650 kilometer long SNIM railroad line from Nouadhibou to Zouérate. On the right is the “Desert Train” (“Train du Désert”) with GPL-15T BB # 207,... (more)