Peru
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Perurail locomotive 353 doing shunting at the Ollantaytambo station.
Picture 29.3.2018 by Pekka Ihalainen.
Perurail locomotive 353 doing shunting at the Ollantaytambo station.The locomotives no. 350-360 are now 914 mm gauge, but they used to be normal
1435 mm gauge engines. They are of the type ALCo DL535B, built in 1963 for F.C del Sur del Peru, the Peru Southern railroads.
Picture from the Ollantaytambo station 29.3.2018 by Pekka Ihalainen.
A closeup picture of the same ALCo engine.
Picture from the Ollantaytambo station 29.3.2018 by Pekka Ihalainen.
Perurail's modern coaches.
Picture from the Ollantaytambo station 29.3.2018 by Pekka Ihalainen.
Perurail's modern coaches.
Picture from the Ollantaytambo station 29.3.2018 by Pekka Ihalainen.
Perurail serving drinks to tourists. This picture and the pictures shown above are from the line Ollantaytambo - Aguas Calientes,
that is, the line taking tourists to just below the famous Machu Picchu touristic site.
Picture 29.3.2018 by Pekka Ihalainen.
Picture through a train window from a Cusco to Puno train line train. This picture is from Cusco as the train is just leaving the city.
The line is called Titicaca Train and it is purely touristic train service run a couple of times per week with fairly luxurious train
coaches. The line ends at Puno by the lake Titicaca and by the border to Bolivia.
Picture 30.3.2018 by Pekka Ihalainen.
Tourists enjoying a ride on the Titicaca Train.
Picture 30.3.2018 by Pekka Ihalainen.
The luxurious train toilet on the Titicaca Train.
Picture 30.3.2018 by Pekka Ihalainen.
La Raya is the highest point of the Cusco to Puno train line, at 4319 metres over sea level. It has been built into an artisanal tourist
attraction where the local indian population can sell their handicrafts to tourists. This is the world's fourth highest spot that you can reach
with a train.
Picture 30.3.2018 by Pekka Ihalainen.
The Titicaca Train stopping at La Raya.
Picture 30.3.2018 by Pekka Ihalainen.
The Titicaca Train coaches and locomotive at La Raya.
Picture 30.3.2018 by Pekka Ihalainen.
Titicaca Train coaches at La Raya, 4319 metres over sea level.
Picture 30.3.2018 by Pekka Ihalainen.
Huankayo metro - Metro Wanka
The Huancayo metro or Metro Wanka was a cheating railway project to steal money from the state of Peru. In 2012 the mayor of the city of Huancayo
declared that this city was to become the second city in Peru with a metro system. Money was obtained first for buying the needed rolling stock.
The metro service was supposed to have seven stations near the city of Huancayo high up in the Andes. In practise all that was done was that some
scrapped diesel railbuses of the Danish type Lynette which had been built already in the beginning of the 1960s were bought. It was claimed that
these two coaches long Lynettes
could take up to 300 passengers. Then in 2013 more money from the state was asked for with the excuse that for security reasons a fence on both sides
of the "metro line" should be built. In practise nothing was built at all and in August of 2013 it was announced that the work had been stopped and
even the very old Lynettes were "given elsewhere". A lot of state money disappeared and also the trains disappeared.
This picture shows the front of one of the old Lynettes, a former train of the Helsingør-Hornbæk Banen in Denmark. Picture by Adrian Gray.
This was the "metro station" of the cheating Metro Wanka project.
Picture by Adrian Gray 2013.