WAITING FOR THE TRAIN

[Rufus T. Firefly]

The Rick and Morty Story Train

Should be a long wait, unless it comes in a Wendy's happy meal.

I ordered 2!

[Roy]

Must-see Rick and Morty Story Train TV:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G-wUQ8Heiw

[webenda]

Waiting for the train at Mauritania Railway Station

[webenda]

Waiting for the train at Mauritania Railway Station is not a joke. The ore train will stop to pick people up. There are no passenger cars on the train. So where do people ride?

[webenda]

http://tellitlikeitisnews.com/a-ride-on ... ore-train/

[MurphOnMillerAve]

The length of the train, as observable behind that women seated atop the load in the full hopper, is amazing.

[rogruth]

Waiting for the train at Mauritania Railway Station

Interesting piece.

[webenda]

The length of the train, as observable behind that women seated atop the load in the full hopper, is amazing.

Good eyes Murph. The trains are 1.9 miles long. The commodity is Iron Ore. The ore is very heavy. To get the train started after stopping to pick up passengers the engineer bunches the train (backs up) then stretches (pulls ahead strongly) the train. The passengers have said this about it, "The trains lurch violently when starting, accelerating or braking."

[Roy]

I wonder how much it costs, to pick up those passengers?

[webenda]

I wonder how much it costs, to pick up those passengers?

I don't know what it costs the railroad to stop and pick up passengers, nor do I know what it costs to ride in the coaches* at the rear of the train but if you hop into the ore wagons atop the pile of iron ore it is a free ride.

*I just discovered the coaches at the rear of the train.

[HONDO74]

A Ride On Mauritania's Iron Ore Train
http://tellitlikeitisnews.com/a-ride-on ... ore-train/

At one million square kilometers, Mauritania is not a small country, but a very small percentage of it is habitable. The rest is covered by the sands of the Sahara. Towns and settlements are separated by vast stretches of inhospitable desert. Roads often have to make detours hundreds of kilometers long just to avoid the drifting sands.

The mining town of Zouérat in northern Mauritania is one such isolated outpost. With a population close to fifty thousand, Zouérat is not a small town either. Yet, Zouérat’s only connection to the city of Nouadhibou, the country’s only major shipping port on the Atlantic coast, is via a railway. This railway, the only one in the country, serves as the lifeline for one of the world’s poorest nations, hauling iron ore from the mines at Zouérat to the port city of Nouadhibou to be shipped to China and Japan, as well as to Switzerland, Spain, France, Italy and Germany. This railway not only helps drive half the economy of Mauritania, it is also the sole connection to the outside world for the people who live along its route.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

My gosh, what do such people do when they need medical or dental care? Suffer it out? If I were there, I wouldn't know what to give them to be helpful !

[HONDO74]

My gosh, what do such people do when they need medical or dental care? Suffer it out? If I were there, I wouldn't know what to give them to be helpful !

http://tellitlikeitisnews.com/a-ride-on ... ore-train/

The train crawls through the desert, travelling at no more than 50 kilometers per hour. When it passes through towns it slows down allowing passengers to disembark and others to hop aboard. Some men take this opportunity to jump out, relieve themselves and race back before the train speeds up again.

For those who can afford to spare $3 for a ticket, the journey isn’t anymore comfortable.

“Imagine a European rail carriage from the 1970s, stripped of everything of any value: doors, glass, seats, cushioning, lights, toilet bowl,” wrote Hugh Carveth. “Take that skeleton of a train carriage, and add a layer of dust covering every surface. Then think of it being overcrowded to the point of danger, luggage and goods stacked ceiling-high in the corridors, holes in most exterior walls, a smell of pure filth, and finally, remove any illusion of comfort or cleanliness, and there you have the passenger carriage of the Mauritanian iron ore train.”

But at least the passengers have a working toilet.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[rogruth]

Waiting for a train on the same platform with her would be worth the ticket even if I missed the train.