Nice morning with lots of maneuvers at Joaquim Murtinho Yard. The 3715-2 is a former U23C now a C30-7MP modernized by MRS at mid 90's.

A lone SD40-2 still wearing the former CVRD paint scheme pulling a string of 28 loaded hoppers with iron ore heading to a local pig iron plant about 25 Km's ahead.

Train loaded with iron pellets passing by the famous viaduct located at little town of Jeceaba, Minas Gerais. During the entire year lots of railfans come here to photograph the trains and enjoy t... (more)

GE ES58ACi leading an empty ore train heading to the mines. The engine is already really dirty due constant service hauling the iron ore trains. The DPU B was the SD80ACe#103 and DPU C was another... (more)

Empty ore train seen here in the middle of National Forest of Carajás located inside of the Amazon Jungle, climbing the Carajás Hill bound to Carajás Mining Complex with just few kilometers to fin... (more)

Some maneuvers with a set of Dash 9's at Horto Florestal Yard in a nice winter late afternoon light. The historic little station of Horto Florestal was opened at January 30th, 1925, serving to the... (more)

Beautiful building of the Central Station of Belo Horizonte completed in 1922. Today the old station building houses the Museum of Arts and Crafts. One day after the Christmas, the city officials ... (more)

They finally arrived! After being loaded on board the vessel Stellanova at the Port of Halifax, the SD80ACe's arrived in Brazil after a long trip thru the atlantics. These are the first alternatin... (more)

This old lady built at May 1960, still looks in a pretty good shape after 51 years of work.

After almost four months with out railfanning because of the rainy weather, it was a nice return to railfanning, for my surprise a nice SD40-2 pulling the first train I caught throttling up leavin... (more)

In early evening and nearly reaching its destination in the km 868 of the EFC, ES58ACi # 211 works strong in his empty ore train as a remote unit in the final kilometers of the journey from going ... (more)

Empty train passing thru the bridge that separates the Upaon Açu Island where is located the city of São Luís to the mainland. The train is heading to the mainland and the opposite direction heads... (more)

With just few seconds to the black clouds cover the sun, this was my only chance to take the pic with some sun light. While that, local residents (mom and her little baby) walks hurry next to trai... (more)

My last time railfanning at 2011. It was pretty good, with no rain already under rainy period and some nice trains movement. Well... it's pretty much it! Here a lonely ex Ferronorte Dash 9 pulls a... (more)

Meeting of trains on EFC. While empty ore train waits at main#02, loaded iron ore train passes by it led by two Dash 9's heading to São Luís 26km's away from here finishing your journey at Receivi... (more)