An eastbound Union Pacific coal train passes through striking desert landscape just west of Floy, Utah, on March 16, 2009. In the foreground, small desert plants struggle to survive in such a low-... (more)

Dos Cabezas - At one time there was a station building located at Dos Cabezas and a water tower fed from a spring up the hill to the left. The water tower still remains and it once fe... (more)

Tunnel 8 - It was a long hike over the mountain from Dos Cabezas, but it was worth the view. Looking at Tunnel 8 from the side of the trestle at Goat Canyon.

Goat Canyon Trestle - Built in 1932 to by pass a tunnel that had collapsed in an earthquake (located to the right, out of the frame) the trestle at Goat Canyon in the Carrizo Gorge is over ... (more)

Two Over the Side - It was a long hike over the mountain from Dos Cabezas, but it was worth the view on the other side. Here - Looking into the gorge from near the tracks, two wrecked box ... (more)

NF-210 locomotives built by GMD ex CNR, now working in Chile ... Are shifted very lonely in the Atacama desert. FCAB Nº 1428 was CN 942.

Triple traction in front and two helpers locomotives in end of FCAB acid train, up to hard slope from Mejillones seaport to great CODELCO Chuquicamata copper mine, by Cumbre Pass.

Westbound FCAB #210 ore train from Ollague, down to Angamos harbour (Cumbre Pass Pampa - Prat) in Mejillones city.

Southbound FCAB train, two EMD GL26C-2 locomotives #2004 and #2009, in the evening down from Ascotan at the heights of the Andes mountain, to Portezuelo - Antofagasta.

Coming from Tocopilla, empty SQM train near Barriles and change to diesel locomotive to Maria Elena town.

FCAB acid and copper train, crosses the railway line known as Cumbre Pass, railroad connection between large copper mining and Angamos harbour in Mejillones, in the second region of Chile . The Cu... (more)

Incredible to see a railway in these grounds. 3.9% steep the line to Potrerillos is somehow glued into the loose rock slopes of the Río Salado valley. Here GR12U #93 and a sister unit are hard wo... (more)

Vertiginous! ... Tunnel No. 3, and abyss Montandon - Potrerillos line. For friends and members of the Rail Pictures community, you have a beautiful Christmas, an affectionate hug from Chile.

SP's Potash Local rambles through a deep cut on the Cane Creek Branch near Seven Mile.

Absolute darkness and desolation in the Atacama desert, and FERRONOR iron trains continue working nonstop!