ONCF Alstom 'Nez-Casse' electric locomotive E1318 is near journey's end as it approaches the loading terminal at Sidi Hajjaj with a rake of empty phosphate wagons, most likely from the port at Cassablanca.
These former mixed-traffic locomotives now seem to be confined to the phosphate flows in this area, having lost any remaining passenger work several years ago.
It wasn't an easy wait to get one of these machines on camera, four hours were spent the previous evening by the lineside to no avail, but this morning it was only a wait of little over two hours to catch our target. While I cannot say that we observed all the circuits, I can pleasingly say that all of those which were observed (mostly going the wrong way!) were in the hands of the older E1300 and E1350 locomotives.
My trip report from Morocco is now online here.



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