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EP3: 'Please, Lord, Give Me Milk !'
georgiapeach:
:camel :gj: :ty3:
Nice job patlini! Thanks so much for doing all that.
patlini:
--- Quote from: georgiapeach on November 16, 2007, 06:27:56 PM --- :camel :gj: :ty3:
Nice job patlini! Thanks so much for doing all that.
--- End quote ---
no problem glad to help :tup:
gingerman28:
If the train goes from Ouagadougou to Dori, perhaps that makes a better location than Gorom-Gorom for the playtime with the camels.
apskip, you seem good at finding schedules, etc., anything on the Mossi Railroad that might make this all possible? I'm guessing that the teams would travel on the RR the morning after arrival in Ouagadougou. This would give them time to do the tasks before the storm closes things down.
apskip:
GMAN, I had previously tried top find any schedules availables. Please remember that we are referring to a third world country and they do not operate in as sophisticated a manner as we are used to seeing in transportatio systems in first world countries.
I did find once again the source material stating that the rail line ends in Kaya. Here it is from Answer.com:
Transport in Burkina Faso
The current version of the article was imported from the CIA World Factbook.
Railways
A rail link connects Ouagadougou and Bobo-Dioulasso with the port of Abidjan in Côte d’Ivoire: the line from Ouagadougou to the Nigerien capital Niamey stops at Kaya. Instability in Côte D’Ivoire in 2003 forced a rerouting of rail freight from the Abidjan corridor to ports in Togo, Benin, and Ghana via the road network. A proposed rail link between Ouagadougou and Pô in Burkina Faso and Kumassi and Bonakra in Ghana, has been discussed with Ghanaian officials, and feasibility studies are being undertaken to explore this possibility, which would provide rail access to the inland port of Bonakra. Burkina Faso and Ghana use different rail gauges.
total: 622 km (517 km from Ouagadougou to the excellent deepwater port at Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (on the border) and 105 km from Ouagadougou to Kaya)
narrow gauge: 622 km 1.000-m gauge (1995 est.)
Railway links with adjacent countries
Mali - no - same gauge 1000mm
Niger - no railways
Benin - no - same gauge 1000mm
Togo - no - same gauge 1000mm
Ghana - no - break of gauge - 1000mm/1067mm
Côte d'Ivoire - yes - same gauge 1000mm
2006
An Indian proposal has surfaced to link the railways in Benin and Togo with landlocked Niger and Burkino Faso.
A Czech proposal has also surfaced to link Ghana railways with Burkina Faso. [1]. The manganese deposits near Dori are one source of traffic.
Towns served by rail
Banfora
Bobo-Dioulasso
Koudougou
Ouagadougou - capital
Kaya - terminus
It appears that the CIA may be wrong.
Slowhatch:
The saddles seen in this preview cap (source) are interesting. The usual practice for Touareg saddles is to adorn the front with a stylized agades cross (see here). But the curved front can be seen to the north in Mali, as well as the Bella Gorom Gorom picture I've already cited.
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