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)
The “Train du Désert” with the Swiss tour group from Servrail arrived in Ben Amira early in the morning, still in the dark, after traveling through the night from Zouérate. At 07.15 AM, the ... (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)
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)
On this day, Mauritania's “Train du Désert” set off for the first time with a foreign tour group (Servrail from Switzerland) from Ben Amira (PK 393) westwards to the port of Nouadhibou, runni... (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)
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)
