tarboat's photos with the keyword: arbaroba

Asmara freight

12 Jul 2025 4 3 228
A freight train climbs across a viaduct towards Asmara at a location west of Arbaroba on the Eritrea Railway.

Asmara bound

15 Oct 2023 3 290
Leaving Arbaroba with a Mallet headed mixed train to Asmara on the Eritrea Railway.

Above the viaduct

18 Aug 2021 4 276
Getting started from Arbaroba with a train to Asmara on the Eritrea Railway.

Mallet at work

22 Jul 2021 2 281
One of the Eritrea Railway Mallet tank locomotives takes a mixed train across the viaduct at Arbaroba and on towards Asmara.

Arbaroba viaduct

05 Nov 2020 5 1 352
The locals look on as a mixed train leaves Arbaroba for Asmara on the Eritrean Railway.

Firewood

02 Nov 2020 6 2 288
The collection of firewood, particularly for cooking, is an important occupation in Eritrea. These donkeys their handlers had just passed through the tunnel, using the trackbed of the Eritrea Railway as a convenient route back from the foraging grounds. This is just one of the hazards for railway operations in this country.

Between tunnels

27 Sep 2020 9 3 328
A mallet locomotive heads a train towards Asmara between two of the tunnels on the Eritrea Railway between Nefasit and Arbaroba.

Roadside steam

01 Jul 2020 2 292
A pair of Mallets lift their train from Arbaroba towards Asmara on the Eritrea Railway.

Mallet in charge

18 Mar 2020 7 1 479
Train leaving Arbaroba on the final climb towards Asmara on the Ertitrean Railway. The Mallet locomotives on this line were once very capable but are now very run down.

Arbaroba viaduct

31 May 2019 4 2 528
A train accelerates over the short viaduct at Arbaroba on the climb towards Asmara on the Eritrea Railway. A Mallet locomotive leads the way.

Arbaroba

20 May 2019 2 325
A Mallet leads a train over the short viaduct at Arbaroba on the climb towards Asmara on the Eritrea Railway.

Crossing the viaduct

04 Oct 2016 6 3 667
On the climb towards Asmara a train headed by a pair of Mallets crosses the viaduct west of Arbaroba on the Eritrea Railway.

Approaching Devil's Gate

04 Apr 2016 25 1 883
A freight working dashes along the ledge high on the mountainside on the approach to Devil's Gate on the Eritrea Railway.

Water stop

02 Apr 2016 2 1 622
Local people fill their containers at a spring close to the line above Arbaroba on the Eritrea Railway.

Bridging the valley

12 Jan 2015 27 7 1253
Double-headed Mallets climbing towards Asmara and crossing the viaduct west of Arbaroba on the Eritrea Railway.