S.n.i.m. Website Links For
Mauritania
 

Information About

S.n.i.m.




General Motors 3300V Locomotives , 200 to 210 cars each carrying up to 84 tons of iron ore, and a variable number of service cars. The total traffic averages 16.6 billion tons per year.

Travelers' cars are also occasionally transported by train; these services are managed by an SNIM subsidiary, the ATTM Society (''Société d'assainissement, de travaux, de transport et de maintenance''). Passenger cars are sometimes attached, but more often passengers simply ride atop the ore cars.


EXTERNAL LINKS