1008 and 1009 are on their way to the summit, pictured between San Mateo and Rio Blanco, where the line crosses the valley and the road over this steel bridge.

1001 is close to the summit now at about 4710 m a.s.l.

A steam crane loads pallets of flour from a box car into the hold of the Lake Titicacca steamer Ollanta. At the time of this photo a Hitachi 2-8-2 occasionally shunted the Puno docks. Unfortunate... (more)

View from the vistadome car; locomotive diesel Alco DL class headed the tourist train called "Andean Explorer" depart from Wanchaq station in Cusco bound Puno circulates along Watanay Valley close... (more)

FCCA 1000 smokes it up as it pulls hard past the station at Tamboraque. Once the rear clears the switch the train will shove up hill navigating one of the many zig-zag's used to reach the summit a... (more)

PeruRail cars 217 and 216 prepare for departure from Aguas Calientes station which serves visitors to famous Macchu Picchu (reached by bus or van connection) back to Cusco, Peru. PeruRail has a ... (more)

Depart few seconds before "Andean Explorer" tourist train the small Dresine called in spanish slang "Zorra" crossing the Candelaria market to checking the Puno - Cusco main line for the passengers... (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)

Still lettered Ferrocarril-Huancayo-Huancavelica, Japanese railcar No. 31 was formerly narrow-gauge and had just recently been converted to standard gauge by Ferrovias Central Andina (FCCA) when p... (more)

The No. 1 rated passenger train in South America is Perurail's "Andean Explorer" shown here leaving its southern terminus of Puno on the shore of Lake Titicaca on Aug. 2, 2008 for its 230-mile run... (more)

Alco DL 560 class headed in a cloudy and rainy day a tourist train called "Andean Explorer" from Puno bound to Cusco city in this unforgettable trip during around ten hours along the Titicaca`s la... (more)

FCCA 1012 with a loaded train of minerals downhill towards Lima

General Electric C30-7 1008 manipulate in Galera station, 4781m high

Luxuary tourist train Andean Explorer 20, was running towards to its destination Puno.

must be fun to ride this "mosquito" but quite fresh in the high mountain thin air ...