坐在最前面的年轻的穆罕默德·萨拉姆经常坐着这列运送铁矿石的货车穿越毛里塔尼亚撒哈拉大沙漠,从zouerat露天赤铁矿中心到努瓦迪布商业港。旅行是危险而费劲的,但自由的商品运输为萨拉姆和同事们提供了谋生的手段。据报道,这条被称为“撒哈拉沙漠快车”的铁路是在毛里塔尼亚摆脱法国殖民地独立3年后建成的,这里的火车是世界上最长的火车之一。列车长度超过2500米,每天从沙漠深处行到大西洋海 The youngest Mohamed Salam, sitting in the forefront, often sits in the freight train transporting iron ore across the Mauritania Sahara desert, from the zouerat open-air hematite center to the commercial port of Nouadhibou. Travel is dangerous and strenuous, but free shipping of goods provides Salam and colleagues with a means to make a living. The railway, which is known as the “Sahara Express”, was reportedly completed three years after Mauritania emerged from the French colonial independence. The train here is one of the longest trains in the world. Train length of more than 2,500 meters, every day from the desert line to the Atlantic Ocean