Ollagüe, 3660 meter a.s.l (12000 ft), border station between Chile and Bolivia, with a population of about 200 people. Sixaxle Bo'Bo'Bo Hitachi-Mitsubishi BFA 32M diesellocomotives # 1010 and # 1... (more)

Three locomotives of the FCAB (Ferrocarrill de Antofagasta a Bolivia) are pulling an impressive, about 2300 ton train (lead/zinc/silver concentrates in containers) from the San Cristóbal mine in ... (more)

Jamesflamingos on the Salar de Ascotan on 3730 meter a.s.l. 3 locomotives of the FCAB (Ferrocarrill de Antofagasta a Bolivia) are pulling an impressive about 2300 ton train (lead/zinc/silver conce... (more)

3 locomotives of the FCAB (Ferrocarrill de Antofagasta a Bolivia) are pulling an impressive about 2300 ton train (lead/zinc/silver concentrates in containers) from the San Cristóbal mine in Boliv... (more)

The FCAB line to Bolivia is reaching nearly 4000 meter on the Ascotan pass summit. Former Queensland Railway GL26C-2 # 2004 and former Columbia (FNC) GT22CU-3 (rebuilt GR12) # 2404 are pulling a b... (more)

Touching the sky! The FCAB line to Bolivia is reaching nearly 4000 meter on the Ascotan pass summit, here we are on about 3450 m. Untypical precipitations in december 2011 caused more snow then us... (more)

The boxcar train from Antofagasta to Bolivia will soon reach the border station of Ollagüe, pulling are GT22CU-3 (rebuilt GR12) # 2404 (former Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Colombia # 422, but is a... (more)

Wide open space and an impressive 2300 ton train on 1 metre gauge, about 3850 meter a.s.l. 3 locomotives of the FCAB are pulling a loaded train (lead/zinc/silver concentrates in containers) from t... (more)

On more then 3700 meter a.s.l. (12200 ft) the train of the FCAB with 52 cars and 104 empty ore containers from the port of Mejillones bound for the San Christobal mine in Bolivia, is nearing the b... (more)

The engineer just shifted up the gear for the grade from the Salar de Ascotan to the Salar de Caracote. GT22CU-3(rebuilt GR 12) # 2402 and GL26C-2 # 2010 and # 2005 are running on about 3730 meter... (more)

GT22CU-3 (rebuilt from GR 12) # 2402 and GL26C-2 # 2010 and # 2005 are running along the Salar de Ascotan on about 3730 meter a.s.l in the andean highland in northern Chile towards the border at O... (more)

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

FCAB #209 traveling to Ollagüe, downward from the Ascotan pass, the highest point in the route (4000 m), in the heights of Andes.

In the heights of Andes, FCAB #209 in route to Ollagüe.