Cache was placed near the Tunnel Entrance/Exit on the Sishen Saldanha RailwayLine at Baboon Point
The iron-ore trains that come past here are something to behold. Trains more than 3 km long regularly make the 861 km journey from the mines at Sishen in the Northern Cape to the harbour at Saldanha, where most of their cargo of iron ore is loaded onto ships and exported. Up to 12 trains a day rumble past Elands Bay and through the tunnel at Baboon Point. In 1989, the Sishen-Saldanha line set a record for the longest and heaviest train ever assembled. It was 7,3 km long, weighed 69 393 tons and took 16 locomotives to haul. BHP Billiton subsequently broke the record in 2001 with a 7,35 km-long iron ore train in Western Australia. Spoilsports!
One train can compromise as many as 342 wagons, each wagon with a maximum load-bearing capacity of 100 tons, you do the maths!