By Malvilla gorge at the eastern exit of the San Antonio city, early in the day intermodal train - CFX "Corredor Ferroviario Xpress" - of TRANSAP railroad with EMD SD39-3M No. D-2304 leading the t... (more)

GE 70ton survives the passing of the years and the end of its operations, in Chinchorro FCALP maintenance facility, Arica.

The long train with 40 cars and 80 round specialized containers for lead/zinc/silver concentrates from the San Cristobal mine in Bolivia to the port of Mejillones in Chile left the border station ... (more)

Depot and workshop of the Ferronor (Empresa de Transporte Ferroviario S.A.) in Llanta, for operations on the 1 meter gauge Chañaral–Diego de Almagro-Llanta-Potrerillos line in the north of Chil... (more)

EMD G22CU # 94 of the Ferronor, built in 1971 for the Codelco, is pulling an empty sulfuric acid tank car train from Llanta up to Potrerrilos, in the steep slope on a grade of about 3.0 %. Sadly, ... (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)

Railfans from Switzerland, Germany and Austria of the Tanago tour are waiting for the loaded sulphuric acid tank car train of the FCAB, which is tackling the grade of the Cumbre pass on the way f... (more)

The two vintage "boxcab" locomotives 289A # 601 and # 607 in multiple traction are reaching the switchback station Reverso with an empty train from Tocopilla. Here the locomotives will g... (more)

A group of EMD locomotives (SD40-2, SD39-2M), along with an ALCO RSD34 is waiting for service in Alameda Yard during the afternoon.

ex Australia QR railways sold to Ferronor chile .

The last days of operations of the Pedro de Valdivia nitrate office, near Maria Elena. Unfortunately, all SQM railways (Tocopilla, Maria Elena, Coya, Pedro de Valdivia) closed at the end of 2015.

On a day with a lot of air pollution in Santiago, the train movement continues in the old San Eugenio workshops, which has also become a warehouse for old locomotives and cars of all kinds. The lo... (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)

Besides the world-famous Cumbre Loops, there are another set of inverse horseshoe curves farther east in the Cumbre Pass. Here we see a train of copper cathodes and empty sulfuric acid tanks headi... (more)

Ferronor train 901 skirts through the vast dry emptiness of the Atacama Desert on its way from Baquedano to Estación Adolfo Zaldivar.