The SDL40-2 CC # 114, standing in front of the SNIM workshop in Nouadhibou, was built in 1993 in the third order of 6 locs. The SDL40-2 are an about 10 ton lighter version of the SDL40-2, with mov... (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 633 meter a.s.l. Ben Amira, which rises about 430 meter above the desert, the empty ore train "V5" (vide train # 5) from Nouadhibou to Zouérat... (more)

When the approximately 650 kilometer long line from the port of Nouadhibou to the ore mine near Zouérate was built in Mauritania between 1960 and 1963, MIFERMA (Société anonyme des Mines de fer... (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 "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.

Euro 9000 multisystem locomotive 2019 # 314 "Bull", ownend by European Loc Pool (ELP) and built by StadlerRail in Valencia/Spain, rented by HSL Logistik, pulls the about 2400 ton sugar b... (more)

Former SBB diesellocomotive Bm 6/6 # 18511 (Bm 860 CH-VRLS # 98 85 5860 511-5) of the Association Rangierlok Schweiz (VRLS), operational, shunted by diesel tractor Tm 232 # 004 of Stauffer (JÜST)... (more)

When the approximately 650 kilometer long line from the port of Nouadhibou to the ore mine near Zouérate was built in Mauritania between 1960 and 1963, MIFERMA (Société anonyme des Mines de fer... (more)

The full or empty ore trains in Mauritania have always been used free of charge by the locals. In recent years, a trend has emerged whereby the trains are increasingly being used by adventurers fr... (more)

Brand new Flirt Evo RABe 531 # 403 from StadlerRail for the Thurbo in Winterthur freight yard for static multiple control tests with RABe 531 # 401. The “t” signet on the front for “Thurbo�... (more)

In addition to the 29 “Giruno” RABe 501 high-speed trains currently in service, SBB has exercised an option to order a further 7 trains in 2022 and 5 more in 2024, meaning that there will ulti... (more)

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)