I originally started “Red sky at morning………..” then something didn’t look right and I knew someone would correct me. I was wrwrwrong! “Red sky at night, sailor’s delight” is mo... (more)

High on a ridge after crossing the Columbia River from Wishram WA. on the Celilo Bridge, a southbound BNSF Mixed Manifest will soon be snaking through the Deschutes River Canyon. ... (more)

High above the walls of Sheep Canyon in Northern Wyoming, the usual silence of this picturesque location is broken by the sound of BNSF #1572's prime mover, hauling a formidable train back to its ... (more)

A pair of Union Pacific SD70M's lead the once weekly potash local out of Bootlegger Canyon in the shadow of Corona Arch en route to Intrepid potash near Moab.

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)

Just east of the small town of La Veta, CXRG 303 leads the eastbound Alamosa to Walsenburg turn on a cold, windy late morning.

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)

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)

In Mauritania, all locomotives in use are equipped with hydraulically operated, lowerable sand plows, which are attached to the bogie and are located behind the permanently mounted normal plows. H... (more)

SNIM's central workshop in Nouadhibou for the maintenance, overhaul and repair of locomotives and freight and passenger cars. On the more than 700-kilometre route through the Mauritanian desert, i... (more)

The loaded ore train M4 of about 2 kilometer length from Zouérate/Fderîck to Nouadhibou is only a few minutes from destination. Pulling are SDL40-2 CC # 109, # 103 and # 117 (built between 1981... (more)

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

Empty ore train V3 (vide train 3) including some loaded water tankers running through Boulenouar at PK 96 of the 650 kilometer long single track railroad from Nouadhibou to Zouérate. Pulling are ... (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)

Shunting at Jingpeng station brought "old" and "new" together. While the diesel locomotive of the DF8B class will surely still be in service today, the QJ steam locomotives has... (more)