The two vintage "boxcab" locomotives 289A # 601 and # 607 in multiple traction are reaching the switchback station Reverso with an empty train from Tocopilla. Here the locomotives will go around t... (more)

The two vintage "boxcab" locomotives 289A # 601 and # 607 in multiple traction are reaching the switchback station Reverso with an empty train from Tocopilla. Here the locomotives will g... (more)

The two vintage "boxcab" locomotives 289A # 601 and # 607 in multiple traction are ready for departure in Barriles (1000 m a.s.l/3200 ft a.s.l.) on the "Tocopilla Railway" with... (more)

The two vintage "boxcab" locomotives 289A # 601 and # 607 in multiple traction are slowly running down the heavy 4.0 % grade of the "Tocopilla Railway" with a loaded nitrate tr... (more)

Another railway line of Chile, which was partly destroyed by the heavy floods in august 2015, was the "Tocopilla" of the Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile from Tocopilla to Maria Elena ... (more)

Another railway line of Chile, which was partly destroyed by the heavy floods in august 2015, was the "Tocopilla" of the Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile from Tocopilla to Maria Elena ... (more)

Another railway line of Chile, which was partly destroyed by the heavy floods in august 2015, was the "Tocopilla" of the Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile from Tocopilla to Maria Elena ... (more)

Another railway line of Chile, which was partly destroyed by the heavy floods in august 2015, was the "Tocopilla" of the Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile from Tocopilla to Maria Elena ... (more)

A railroadman of the SQM just lined the switch for a move in Barriles. Boxcabs # 601 and 607 are ready with a loaded sodium nitrate (NaNO3) train for the descent of about 1000 meter down to Tocopi... (more)

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)

General Electric boxcabs # 601 and 607 of the SQM will reach the reversing station "Reverso" in short time, after pulling the empty afternoon train on a grade of 4.0 % from Tocopilla and lifting i... (more)

The loaded evening train from Barriles down to Tocopilla with GE boxcabs # 601 and 607 near a memorial for deceased. Update: The memorial commemorates the railway accident in November 2009 when a ... (more)

General Electric boxcabs 601 and 607, 85 years old now, still in operation on the "Tocopilla" of the Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile. The loaded downhill train is rounding the curve about 300 m... (more)

General Electric boxcabs 601 and 607, 85 years old now, still in operation on the "Tocopilla" of the Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile. The train is on the section from Tocopilla (in the backgrou... (more)

GE boxcabs 601 "Andrea" and 607 "Alejandra", built in 1927/28 for the "Compania Salitrera Anglo-Lautaro", working a downgrade train, loaded with nitrate from the Atacama, from Barilles down to the... (more)