Today's Bing Home page... Portrerillos mine railway.

That's actually kinda kewl, but the operation of that railroad looks quite dangerous. It would be a splendid place to visit though! For surely worth the share.
 
That's actually kinda kewl, but the operation of that railroad looks quite dangerous. It would be a splendid place to visit though! For surely worth the share.

I was thinking the same. Safety is one of those things though that's farthest from the minds of people down there.

That would be an interesting route to build too in Trainz, and probably would have great frame rates and we wouldn't have to worry about Speed Treez.

John
 
http://youtu.be/K4_PaoDBEC4

Here's a train ride on the line from the port on the Pacific Ocean to the refinery.

Note the passenger car and caboose. They probably date back to when the line was built in 1917.

The diesels are interesting, they sound like EMD products, but look Russian or Eastern European, except they have knuckle couplers.

John
 
South American railways are interesting, last year at school I did a report on Argentina- They have a "train to the clouds"-a train running on a narrow ledge, maybe like 2 feet to the edge, at least what I remember from the picture I saw.
 
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This would have to be one of the coolest routes to see made for the game i think, I love all of the pic's from this area there's a story in each one.
http://www.markusworldwide.ch/Railways/Chile/FCAB/FCAB_Ascotan.htm
http://www.railpictures.net/album/546/
Cheers Mick.

Yes, I agree!

Those trains look really, really tiny in that vast landscape. It's interesting the Bolivian railroad is running Australian locomotives from Queensland and pulling American-type boxcars behind. Hmm.... Some ideas for us Trainz users! :)

John
 
I have never seen such a forlornly, rugged, vertical vacant desert landscape ... that looks just like the surface of Mars ... no food ... no crops ... no wildlife ... no settlements ... just a wasteland of eroded, used up ore, depleted dusty sandy gravel and boulders ... I wish that I could replicate that horrid terrain in Trainz
 
Might fall foul of the altitude limit in Trainz though, unless you drop ground level to below sea level at the Transdem stage.

Certainly a fascinating route though!
 
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