Cote d'Ivoire

[10800]

I was in Cote d'Ivoire last week, and whilst staying overnight in Abidjan there just happened to be a view of the railway station from the hotel.

 

This is a metre-gauge line which runs almost due north all the way (and into) Burkina Faso.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[EddieB]

Thank you for posting.  Certainly a country that is seldom visited by railway enthusiasts, and I'm guessing from your pictures that closer inspection and photography would have been "difficult".

 

Here's a link to a piece lifted from a posting on the World Diesel Locomotive Yahoo Group (original posting dated 2nd July 2009), by a well-known friend and correspondent, giving some identification of the locomotives: http://www.railwaysafrica.com/blog/2009/07/09/sitarail-in-burkina-faso/. 

 

Interestingly, both the CC22000 series GM Co-CoDEs in the photos are owned nominally by Burkina Faso.  The Henschel Bo-BoDH appears to be BB157, and has similarities to the class 62 locomotives supplied to East Africa.

[10800]

Thanks Eddie.  I don't think it would have been intrinsically difficult to get a closer look, just that I wasn't there to look at trains and had another schedule to keep!  The view from the hotel was just fortunate.