For twenty minutes, you could hear them before you could see them. The hum of the venerable 16-645 diesel engines on westbound trio of American made SDL40-2 locomotives carried across the sunkissed desert. Eventually, a headlight appeared as the train rolled through the desert town of Choum, Mauritania. The water tanks on the head end and the ore empties behind are bound for the municipalities and mines at Zouérat.
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