Perfect precision landing in Choum. A few minutes after the Servrail tour group from Switzerland arrived in Choum in the minibuses from Atar, an empty iron ore train approached from the west on th... (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)
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)
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)
A North Bound train departs Proctor Yard for the Iron Range with a Bessemer Tunnel Motor leading through Munger, MN.
IC 6263 waits to depart Proctor with northbound ore empties.
After throwing the switch, a C&NW brakeman climbs back on board as a westbound train of empty ore gennies gets underway at Empire Junction, MI on June 7, 1983. Unit 6718 leads the usual set of th... (more)
