U20C # 4 of the SQM is a rebuilt former South African Class 33.4/ then ALL Brasil (by Casagrande at Chena (Santiago)/Chile), which pulls the nitrate trains between María Elena mine and Barriles.

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)

Empty afternoon uphill train of the SQM is nearing a short cut on the ascent to Barriles, on a grade of 4.0 %. Pulling are 85 years old General Electric boxcabs # 607 "Alejandra" and 601 "Andrea"

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)

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

Two of the new delivered locomotives of the SQM, built by Casagrande Motori in Santiago, are rounding the curve "Pacific View" high above the town of Tocopilla on the line up to Barriles. The grad... (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)

One of the MONUMENTS most recognizable of the Tocopilla coastal, old but still brilliant BoxCab 289A GE Electric Locomotives built in 1927, no major problems up the slope of 4.1% from seaport to t... (more)