The FCAB line to Bolivia is reaching nearly 4000 meter on the Ascotan pass summit. Former Queensland Railway GL26C-2 # 2004 and former Columbia (FNC) GT22CU-3 (rebuilt GR12) # 2404 are pulling a b... (more)

A typical train of the FCAB from the copper mines near Calama and Chuquicamata, with flat cars loaded with copper plates and empty sulfuric acid tank cars is running over the Cumbre pass, through ... (more)

A typical train of the FCAB from the copper mines near Calama and Chuquicamata, with flat cars loaded with copper plates and empty sulfuric acid tank cars is running west between Baquedano and Pra... (more)

A typical train of the FCAB from the copper mines near Calama and Chuqicamata is tackling the grade from Prat (about 690 meter a.s.l) to the Cumbre pass (about 970 meter a.s.l.) and the harbour of... (more)

In the last sunrays a heavy sulfuric acid tank car train from the port of Mejillones is creeping up the Cumbre pass on the FCAB. GR12U # 1405 from 1961, Clyde GL22C # 1454 from 1968 ex Queensland ... (more)

The 1 meter gauge locomotives of the Ferrocarril de Antofagasta a Bolivia (FCAB) has a very pleasant paint scheme, looking great in the wide landscape. The GL26C # 2011 was built in 1972 by Clyde/... (more)

A long train of the FCAB with 9 loaded flat cars with copper plates and 28 empty sulphuric acid tank cars is running down the Cumbre pass towards the port of Mejillones. Pulling are G22C # 1452 an... (more)

Sometimes, the FCAB is coupling two trains together to climb the Cumbre pass from Mejillones. First part is with 27 sulphuric acid tank cars with 3 locomotives, second part with locomotives GR12U ... (more)

A loaded sulphuric acid tank car train of the FCAB is tackling the grade of the Cumbre pass on the way from Mejillones to (probably) Chuquicamata. Pulling are GL26C # 2006 (former Queensland Gov... (more)

A long train of the FCAB (Ferrocarril de Antofagasta a Bolivia) is reaching Cumbre pass summit (930 meter a.s.l) for a crossing. Pulling are G22C # 1542 former Queensland Railway # 1506, GR12U # 1... (more)

In Potrerillos, near Diego de Almagro town in northern Chile, the sun has been hidden between the hills of the Andes mountain, the night has already begun, and trains of FERRONOR railway continue ... (more)

Blackened Locomotives by smoke, an example of the force that these machines should exert.

Ending the day the last rays of sun illuminate the highest hills of Salado Creek and Potrerillos Gorge, FERRONOR freight coming from Codelco foundry and copper plant in Potrerillos, negotiates a c... (more)

A memory of the disappeared railway that climbed to the CODELCO Potrerillos mining zone, FERRONOR copper train going through the most difficult and spectacular section, between Montandon and Potre... (more)

An EMD export GA8 waits inside the port area between assignments. It had pulled a string of cathode cards to the port about an hour earlier and would take back some empty flats about an hour later... (more)