# 424 climbing the Cheueque quest with a loaded iron train to Vallenar.

Perhaps my first and probably last contact with Ferronor's Potrerillos line was in 2012. Due to heavy rain fall the line was massively damaged (dozens of km of the line are gone!) this spring and ... (more)

The "Iron Train", arriving Huasco. It can be seen how your cargo residues (iron) are deposited on the sides of the railway, preventing normal growth of vegetation. The port of Huasco has a high le... (more)

Hard railway route in the bottom of the canyon, FERRONOR downhill from CODELCO copper smelter in Potrerillos.

Downhill from CODELCO potrerillos foundry, train of FERRONOR loaded with copper cathodes and empty oil tanks between Potrerillos and Montandon, through the most stunning stretch of the route to Di... (more)

Train loaded with copper concentrate from El Salvador copper mine, after passing the Montandon former station is a closed horseshoe curve and from there will begin to climb towards CODELCO foundry... (more)

The Iron train, heading to the port of Huasco in the third region of Chile

Two locomotives "helpers" of the "Iron Train", rest a sunset in Chehueque, after is tour of the desert Vallenar.

A locomotive is visiting. GR12 EMD railway locomotive belonging to CMP railroad (La Serena - Coquimbo) is unexpectedly in Ferronor rail network.

The "Iron train" of FERRONOR railway with one of the six new locomotives (FN 4606) for Vallenar city

Departure from Chañaral of FERRONOR train loaded woth products for mining, with destination Llanta in Diego de Almagro city.

Nr. 412 is one of the engines involved in the 2006 Socompa pass accident, after which Belgrano Cargas initially refused to repair and return the locomotive. In 2013 we could see it in action, thou... (more)

In the dusk, FERRONOR train coming from Barquito seaport in Chañaral, passes through this desolate place in Atacama desert with destination Llanta, and then to Potrerillos.

A marvelous condor accompanying the passage of this train in travel Llanta - Potrerillos, from the heights of Andes mountain. Another picture of the same sequence: http://www.railpictures.net/phot... (more)