SITARAIL or ... Africa's Trains

[FastFranz]

Ciao,
 
It's time so share few images of Ivorian RR:
 
The "Société Internationale de Transport Africain par rail" (SITARAIL) based in Abidjan, Ivory Coast runs the railway line between the Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso. The main purpose of the service is to connect the mining areas of Burkina Faso with the - a leading West Africa - port of Abidjan.

The Abidjan-Ouagadougou route covers a total of 1260 km (including 627 km in the territory of Côte d'Ivoire) and uses the meter gauge (1,000 mm). The fleet, shared with the Burkina Faso railways, consists of 39 locomotives, 631 wagons directly owned, 197 owned by others while 29 are passenger coaches.H

 

Francesco

 

 

[railsquid]

Nice pictures

 

The fleet, shared with the Burkina Faso railways, consists of 39 locomotives, 631 wagons directly owned, 197 owned by others while 29 are passenger coaches.H

 

With those numbers it's conceivable a modeller could model the entire fleet.

[FastFranz]

Ciao,

 

Well - see my post help "help what loco are those?!?!?! - I'd like to have one of them but so far I haven't find a suitable "kitbashing start-up loco": neither the GT26 nor the Class 33! It'sd Worth adding I - perhaps - found something vaguely resembling the second one that - once repainted and the rest - could mimic the Class 33, mostly if looked with a ... "bird eye"!

 

HIT the link (no longer able - and wondering why!!! - to incorporate a YouTube Videoclip) to se a ... "moving train": https://youtu.be/nWPbQ87rC70

 

Francesco