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Date: 01/28/24 09:18
Sahara Desert Iron ore trains.
Author: stevelv

Interesting read in today's Daily Mail  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-12973101/I-travelled-iron-ore-deep-Sahara-Desert-one-worlds-extreme-railways-Heres-saw.html

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Date: 01/28/24 18:43
Re: Sahara Desert Iron ore trains.
Author: railstiesballast

Thanks, I learned something new today.  A lot of new things!

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Date: 01/28/24 19:37
Re: Sahara Desert Iron ore trains.
Author: NMlurker

That is absolutely crazy.

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Date: 01/29/24 09:18
Re: Sahara Desert Iron ore trains.
Author: pedrop

Very interesting article. It's not a kind of railfaning trip I would like to do. I think I am old for that.

Pedro Rezende
Vespasiano MG,
https://youtube.com/c/minasgeraisrailways1

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Date: 01/29/24 09:35
Re: Sahara Desert Iron ore trains.
Author: jcaestecker

I appreciate your sharing that story.  Not something I would care to do but I certainly applaud the intrepid traveler.

-John 

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Date: 01/29/24 09:42
Re: Sahara Desert Iron ore trains.
Author: train1275

Dang !!!

That's crazy !!

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Date: 01/29/24 11:26
Re: Sahara Desert Iron ore trains.
Author: Hartington

In 2002 the BBC aired "Sahara with Michael Palin". The first episode included this same train https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4vSy6KXByQ

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Date: 01/29/24 12:25
Re: Sahara Desert Iron ore trains.
Author: DKay

There is another series shown on TV down here from time to time (might be BBC also )....Chris Tarrant's Extreme rail JourneysHe did that trip in a recent show. They had to get off and help shovel sand. 
Regards,dK

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Date: 01/30/24 19:18
Re: Sahara Desert Iron ore trains.
Author: loleta

Just toss that goat anywhere.

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Date: 01/31/24 11:55
Re: Sahara Desert Iron ore trains.
Author: march_hare

Take the possibility of being kidnapped out of the equation, and I'd give it a try. 

Anybody know the ancestry of the dead locomotives in the photos?  Looks like modified SD40s in service now. 

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