It's great how you can hear the jet turbine wind down. All that power and no way to put in on the tracks.

Can't they just back the thing up using one of the read locomotives?

The train from Nouadhibou to Zouerat is the longest train in the world. The iron ore train carry thousands of tons of crusehed rock in a chain of wagons up to three kilometres long. Their schecules and frequencies depend partly on the speed of the extraction at the mines, and even in the past, attacks by Polisario guerillas from over the border in Western Sahara.

There are 3 or 4 diesel-electric General Motors 3300V locomotives at the head of the train and about 200 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.

What a waste. I suppose it was easy back then though when locomotives cost a dollar for a dozen...

I'd like to see him tackle The Locomotion before I pass judgement.

I just thought id share where i volunteer at the weekends. No, im not a train spotter, it just lets me practise my coursework.

The spa valley railway is a small heriatage railway in kent. It runs for 3 and a half miles from Tunbridge Wells To Groombridge, and a closed part of the line continues further to eridge. The main aim of the railway is to reach eridge station.

I have worked on all the locomotives in that video. The front two engines are "33065" and "33063", and are known as cromptons.

www.spavalleyrailway.co.uk

One of the catchiest ear-bug tunes of the last 10 years. Disposable, mediocre bubble-gum-pop, but catchy.

Reluctant up-vote, only for Kylie's bum.

Do the Locomotion.