Sometimes, the FCAB is coupling two trains together to climb the Cumbre pass from Mejillones. First part is with 27 sulphuric acid tank cars with 3 locomotives, second part with locomotives GR12U ... (more)
Railfans from Switzerland, Germany and Austria of the Tanago tour are waiting for the loaded sulphuric acid tank car train of the FCAB, which is tackling the grade of the Cumbre pass on the way f... (more)
A loaded sulphuric acid tank car train of the FCAB is tackling the grade of the Cumbre pass on the way from Mejillones to (probably) Chuquicamata. Pulling are GL26C # 2006 (former Queensland Gov... (more)
A long train of the FCAB (Ferrocarril de Antofagasta a Bolivia) is reaching Cumbre pass summit (930 meter a.s.l) for a crossing. Pulling are G22C # 1542 former Queensland Railway # 1506, GR12U # 1... (more)
An EMD export GA8 waits inside the port area between assignments. It had pulled a string of cathode cards to the port about an hour earlier and would take back some empty flats about an hour later... (more)
An EMD export GA8 leaves the Port of Antofagasta with a string of empty flat cars (used to transport copper cathodes).
A train of sulfuric acid and empty flats (for cathodes) climbs between Sergio Galvan and Cumbre in the Atacama Desert.
Besides the world-famous Cumbre Loops, there are another set of inverse horseshoe curves farther east in the Cumbre Pass. Here we see a train of copper cathodes and empty sulfuric acid tanks headi... (more)
A water tower and abandoned station belie that fact that these tracks are still amazingly active and busy on the FCAB main between Calama and Antofagasta.
The sun sets over FCAB crossbucks in the middle of the Atacama Desert in Chile.
A train of empty sulfuric acid trains passes through the ruins in Salinas Chile. This was once the town that supported a nitrate (saltpeter) mine. Everything was just left for probably a hundred y... (more)
FCAB zinc concentrate train climbs the hill above the salt flats in the very last light of the day.
FCAB zinc concentrate train moves at about five miles an hour over the causeway through Salar San Martin.
FCAB train to Bolivia passing through the salt flats and volcanoes of the Chilean/Bolivian frontier.
