Read a product review of the RMT Atomic Energy Commission ore car in O gauge from Classic Toy Trains magazine.

The train offers no safety measures for those riding atop the ore cars. If a rider falls off, operators likely wouldn’t know—leaving injured tourists stranded in the middle of the Sahara Desert.

PERTH, Australia, April 03, 2025--Rio Tinto’s first locally made iron ore rail car has been built in Western Australia, as it steps up its use of domestic manufacturing across its world class ...

The train can reach lengths of 2.5 to 3 kilometres as it transports iron ore - both in powder and chunk form - over a distance of approximately 700 kilometres, taking about 22 hours to complete ...

A typical BHP ore train is about a mile long and consists of 300 cars hauling 24,000 tonnes of ore each hundreds of miles to waiting freighters.