Massawa Docks

Photo from History of Kagnew Station
The docks at Massawa served a vital role in supplying materiel and equipment for Kagnew Station.  Frequently, in my era, this cargo came via CONEX boxes, a precursor to Multimodal Shipping Containers. Interestingly enough, the above picture was taken well into the Kagnew Station era and the cars are still marked with F.E.  Another question at hand is the railway had 12 meter flats and gondolas.  Why did they bring 7 meter cars to do this job?

Chuck Moulton©1972
Chuck Moulton has other pictures of the area, but these two contain some rail images.  I may post more later.

Chuck Moulton©1972
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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