One of SQMs boxcabs hauls a load of nitrate down to Tocopilla, which you can see in the background. In about a kilometer, the train will arrive at the reverso switchback, where they need to run th... (more)

Locomotive EMD DDM45 808 EFVM and Maintenance Train stoped at Aimorés-MG.

Some graffiti job at Rumo #9848.

Back in the days when the G&Q still hauled freight. Unfortunately I have forgotten where this was taken. It is interesting that the 44 was painted red because traditionally the G&Q painted the b... (more)

A couple of DDM45 pulling platforms with steel rods made by CST, note the tracks in the mud, this place has been taken by the flood at december 2013, when the state of Espirito Santo recorded the ... (more)

A switchman is jumping off the (moving) lead engine as the train approaches the switchback between San Mateo and Rio Blanco.

Because San Bartolomé is a switchback without counterpart, trains have to be re-arranged before they can proceed to Lima. After an epic one-hour shunting operation 701 is finally being coupled to... (more)

The new machine in the desert sunset: EMD GT46AC locomotive displacement alone in search of a train load of iron, in the testing phase. Are 6 new EMD units GT46AC already arrivals at FERRONOR Chil... (more)

#7218 beging unloaded from the ship, this is the first SD40-2 in Argentina.

Cellulose train passes through the longest railway bridge in Chile, the bridge over the river Bio-Bio, which connects the cities of San Pedro de la Paz and Concepcion. Leading train, diesel locomo... (more)

Several of SQM's 85-year-old GE boxcabs are still in daily service hauling nitrates to the port town of Tocopilla. Here, 604 ("Viviana") and 607 ("Alejandra") quietly round a horseshoe curve with ... (more)

It is really an "empty" place in this northernmost part of the Atacama desert - you feel sort of being "lost in the nowhere"

A westbound train passes through one of the many mines located along the FCCA main.

Narrow gauge 2-6-0 working in the yard at Bogota, Columbia in the summer of 1964.