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Full of ore and people! Like you said for a long time there weren't any roads into the interior of Mauritania so that iron train was the main link. I always f

Full of ore and people! Like you said for a long time there weren't any roads into the interior of Mauritania so that iron train was the main link. I always found it super fascinating - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2016/02/12/hot-free-and-dangerous-a-train-ride-in-mauritania/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2016/02/12/h..., https://wildmanlife.com/riding-worlds-longest-iron-ore-train-sahara-desert-mauritania/ https://wildmanlife.com/riding-worlds-longest-iron-ore-train...

newacc9 4y ago
Its the subject of this visually stunning 12m film, "This Sahara Railway Is One of the Most Extreme in the World" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEo-ykjmHgg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEo-ykjmHgg
- akamaka 4y ago
  Thanks, this looks excellent.
- bmitc 4y ago
  Thanks for sharing that. That was very interesting. It almost felt like I was watching a documentary short on Arrakis, where the train is the sandworm.