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I dislike FCCA locomotive 801 (and instead love the original sister 533) but it has an interesting story to tell. Cerro de Pasco mining company, that operated in the homonym village, at the beginning of the last century built a railroad to connect itself with the Ferrocarril Central at La Oroya to e...

Re-resume Apart the sidelined units (most of which fried the prime mover), the running locomotives are not in good health with daily problems mainly to engines, turbochargers, rheostatic braking and control circuits but also simpler things like fallen windscreens or smashed seats. Hauled stock too h...

...resume. This is the actual motive power. ALCO DL532B 1974 950 hp 415 used mainly for shunting. EMD GR12 1965-66 1310 hp 533 801 with modified cab and front end Originally seven locos built for Cerro de Pasco mining railroad; used mainly for shunting and double heading between Callao and Santa Cla...

Thanks to the meeting with some young local railfans I improved my knowledge of the Ferrocarril Central and what resulted is not really pleasant. This is the actual map of the railroad IMG-20210919-WA0031.jpg Traffic flows are now very few: the most important is no doubt ore cars from the andean min...

Well, I wrote in Italian. Here they are known with the slang term of autovías and in other South-American places as zorras (foxes).
I don't know the exact Spanish term but in Italy it is draisina and in French and German the similar draisine.

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The Lima district of El Agustino can't for sure be described as a nice place but offers to the railfans five or six places where take good shots. Unfortunately it isn't very much on my turnarounds and, when I'm there, rarely appears something. Yesterday I've been lucky so can show you this little se...

And yesterday the top satisfaction. It was a long time that I wanted to take photos in one of the most hidden and hot places in Callao, the "asientamento humano Ramon Castilla" and finally, only-the-brave style, I shooted my favourite loco, a nice 56 years old lady. Please note what a kind...

Wednesday instead I left a client just three hundred meters from Patio Central and, turning around a bit, arrived the sulphuric acid train. Some posts back I described the operations so now show only some images. Now the train was hauled by 701 and 533. The train arrival FCCA 701+533 acido Guadalupe...

Nothing special, usual locos and usual grey sky (in fact Tuesday it was even drizzling) but some moments of leisure are a good thing. Tuesday was a bad day so, being in Callao, I tryed to take some photos to break the unlucky trend. At Puerto Nuevo nothing, at Guadalupe (the acid terminal) the same ...

Benny and the Jets only plays after a good beansoup!

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I think that someone at FCCA, in the late afternoon of yesterday, made a big mistake. The usual empty tankers haul from the storage site, that generally waits outside the Patio Central to give way to another train that departs from the interior, this time switched and entered completely, loco and ca...

Hi David. The acid is produced in a refinery in Cajamarquilla,in the eastern suburbs of Lima. The plant is connected to the main FCCA line at Santa Clara station through a three miles branch. A photo of me, instead, is surely better...completely black to avoid seeing my scary! face! :-D Ciao :wink:

Wednesday in the morning I left a client at the Callao navy base and, returning back, I have been stopped by the arrival of the sulphuric acid train. Obviously, when the crossing has been freed, I rushed to document the event; this is what happens (probably it's easier to understand with satellite v...