Cumbre Pass: A large train carrying mineral concentrate (silver) of the Chilean railway company FCAB, crosses the railway line known as "Cumbrepass" railroad connection between large copper mining... (more)

What looks like a moonscape is the Atacoma Desert of Peru where PeruRail Alco DL560 #653 guides a 2-car passenger special en route from Arequipa to the seacoast at Mollendo, dropping over 14,000 ... (more)

Potash Branch by moonlight
The serpentine right-of-way of the Potash Branch is illuminated by the moon and an approaching Union Pacific train near Emkay, Utah, at 7:43 p.m. on March 4, ... (more)

Union Pacific’s Potash local heads south into Bootlegger Canyon after exiting the 7,068-foot Moab Tunnel on May 12, 2006. This train normally operates in the morning, so this afternoon departure... (more)

In perhaps the only location in the world that you can photograph a train through a natural arch, Union Pacific’s Potash local heads north into Bootlegger Canyon on May 12, 2006. This train norm... (more)

The same train as in www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=399153, the same moment, seen from the opposite side of the valley! G22CU 94 of Ferrnonor with a empty sulphuric acid train from Llanta t... (more)

Ferronor's only EMD G22CU, originally built for FCAB but directly sold to Codelco, is working hard to get the sulfuric acid tank cars up to the Potrerillos copper processing plant. Unfortunately t... (more)

GR12 # 401 (former EFE Dt 13001 from 1962) and # 91 (former Codelco, built in 1965) of Ferronor are pulling 23 empty sulphuric acid tank cars from Llanta through the gorge of the Salt River (Quebr... (more)

Three locomotives running down Cumbre pass east side. GR12U # 1403 and Clyde built G22 # 1435 (former WAGR A1518) had been midtrain helper on a train on the west side befor (see photo ID 398299), ... (more)

In the warm evening light a train from Mejillones is fighting up Cumbre pass below the horseshoe curve of Desemparados. Pulling are GR12U # 1405 (new for FCAB in 1961), Clyde built GL22C # 1454 (f... (more)

After leaving the border station of Ollagüe, the heavy train with lead/zinc/silver concentrates in round containers, pulled by GL26C-2 # 2005 and 2010 and GR12 # 2405, is passing the active volca... (more)

Clyde built GL26C-2 # 2011, NF210 # 1425 and GR12 # 2405 are tackling the east ascent to Cumbre pass between Prat and Pampa.

GR12U # 1403 (built new for FCAB in 1961) and Clyde G22 #1435 (former Western Australia Government Railway WAGR) are midtrain helper on a train over Cumbre pass from Mejillones towards Calama. Hea... (more)

General Electric boxcabs # 607 and 601 just departed with a empty train from the station "Reverso" for the further climb up to Barriles.

General Electric boxcabs # 607 and 601 of the SQM, built in 1927 in Schenectady/NY, are pulling the empty uphill train from Tocopilla to Barriles on a grade of 4.0 %, after the crossing with the l... (more)