The evening before at about 6 PM or so, the empty ore train "V5" began its 652-klometer long journey from Nouadhibou on the Atlantic coast to the ore mines around Zouérate. The about 2 ... (more)
About 3 kilometers north of the railroad line through the Mauritanian desert lies the largest monolith in Africa, Ben Amira, the second largest in the world. Its height is given as 633 meters, but... (more)
The empty ore train V5, about 2 kilometers long, slowly moves away in the direction of Choum. Above the train lies a cloud of diesel exhaust fumes, whirled up fine desert sand and dust from iron o... (more)
Northeast of Africa's largest monolith Ben Amira, there are several minor mountains in the Mauritania desert, about 9 kilometer north of the railway track. The about 2 kilometer long empty ore tra... (more)
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)
There is almost no wind in the Mauritanian desert as the about two-kilometre-long empty train from the port of Nouadhibou to the ore mine near Zouérate approaches Pk 404 between Ben Amira and Cho... (more)
The SDL40-2 CC # 114 built by EMD in 1993 pulls the about 2 kilometer long empty ore train of the SNIM (Société Nationale Industrielle et Minière) from Nouadhibou to Zouérate at line kilometer... (more)
A typical SNIM locomotive operation on the ore train route between the port of Nouadhibou and the mines in the Zouérate area and vice versa. Two SDL40-2 locomotives are often used together with o... (more)
It is very surprising that there are very few photos from Mauritania on Railpictures.net yet, although diesel locomotives from the USA have been in service there for over 40 years. Let's start wit... (more)
