In February of 2012, train #209 of FCAB railway, with hopper cars for ore concentrates, from Mejillones and with destination Ollagüe for change cars with bolivian FCA railway, climbing to the top... (more)

FCAB units are looking the same color as the dust on Cumbre Pass as they grind up the grade with empty sulfuric acid tanks. 2 more units are shoving on the rear.

Only train and desert: Eastbound FCAB railway train loaded with acid, and empty copper cars, in the extreme Atacama desert, passes through the Cochrane sector, in the vicinity of the great ... (more)

Triple traction in front and two helpers locomotives in end of FCAB train loaded with sulfuric acid, up to hard slope from Mejillones to great CODELCO Chuquicamata copper mine, by Cumbre Pass in P... (more)

... very alone in Atacama desert. NF-210 locomotives built by GMD former CNR Newfoundland, actually working in Chile, that day working as helper locomotives between Pampa and Cumbre, in the Cumbre... (more)

Evening in Atacama, the night is falling, and triple canadian traction GMD NF-210 former CNR Newfoundland with FCAB train #1250 box car from Ollague (previously Bolivia), acid tanks and copper cat... (more)

A little lonely roadside shrine accompanies the passage of the FCAB train #209 (Mejillones - Ollague), by the Ascotan salt lake.

Triple traction with 3 different locomotives, EMD's GT22CU-3, NF-210 (GMD) and GR12. From Calama, FCAB train goes down Cumbre Pass with destination Mejillones.

A Canadian in the Atacama Desert: FCAB sulfuric acid and copper train, going up from Prat, and crosses the railway line known as Cumbre Pass, railroad connection between large copper mining... (more)

"Welcome to the Mejillones Community; tourist, industrial & port city". A train with acid sulfuric near Mejillones city trought the Cumbre Pass. If you see in the Google Earth You can ... (more)

FCAB short train with empty tanks of sulfuric acid, from the great SPENCE BHP Billiton copper mine, passes along the former Sierra Gorda station, Atacama desert.

Evening in Ascotan, in the heights of Andes, with a dramatic sky in that moment who later became a thunderstorm, and FCAB #1250 continues the travel to Mejillones, in chilean altiplano.

Altiplanic power of FCAB, northbound #209 from Mejillones, after leaving behind the town of San Pedro and start climbing towards Ascotan (4000 mts), the highest point on the way to Ollagüe.

FCAB box car and hopper ore train, #1251 from Mejillones and Portezuelo, to Ollagüe for change cars with bolivian FCA railway. In the picture, the train climbs by the hard curves of Polapi, betwe... (more)

Passing the Volcán San Pedro. Clyde GL26C-2 #2004 (former Queensland Rail) and EMD GT22CU-3 @2404 (former Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Colombia) are hauling a bolivian box car train with goods d... (more)