The last days of operations of the Pedro de Valdivia nitrate office, near Maria Elena. Unfortunately, all SQM railways (Tocopilla, Maria Elena, Coya, Pedro de Valdivia) closed at the end of 2015.
On a day with a lot of air pollution in Santiago, the train movement continues in the old San Eugenio workshops, which has also become a warehouse for old locomotives and cars of all kinds. The lo... (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)
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)