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A fact from Mauritania Railway appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 August 2005. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Mauritania Railway transports iron ore on trains up to three kilometers long?

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Carrying capacity

It's not possible that it only carries 84 tons of iron ore. A ton is essentially a cubic meter of water, a cubic meter of iron ore would weigh more than a cubic meter of water, this train is up to 3kms long - there must be tens of thousands of tons if not hundreds of thousands or even millions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.202.252.86 (talk • contribs)

84 tons is the amount per car, not for the whole train (edited to make that clearer). It adds up to around 17,000 tons for the whole train. OpenToppedBus - Talk to the driver 14:38, August 15, 2005 (UTC)

Loaded Weight

84 tonnes is the weight og the iron ore per car.

The empty weight of the car might be 16 tonnes, so that the loaded weight of the car might be 100 tonnes. If there are 210 cars, the weight of the wagons might be 21,000 tonnes plus the weight of the locomotives. ----MountVic127 (talk) 21:18, 30 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]