There is not much train traffic left in Bolivia today, and what there is, is metre gauge. The Andean Railway Company (FCA) offers a tourist
trip from La Paz by train to the towns of Tiwanaku and Guaqui on the second Sunday of each month. This service allows tourists to visit two
distinctive tourist attractions of La Paz: Tiwanaku and Lake Titicaca. Very often this locomotive no. 954 has been
the one hauling that tourist train. FCA or Empresa Ferroviaria Andina S.A. is the only train company that offers passenger traffic
in the Bolivian Andean Region, but these same locomotives are also used in cargo traffic. This locomotive class, no.951 to 970 is a three bogies,
six axles construction made by Hitachi-Mitsubishi in 1968.
Picture from the Oruro depot in Bolivia by Pekka Ihalainen 2.4.2018.
Two FCA six axle diesel locomotives at the Oruro depot. The one on the left is no.1014 which is from the newer batch of Hitachi-Mitsubishi
locomotives no.1008-1023 from 1978, and the almost - but not quite - identical one on the right is from the Hitachi-Mitsubishi batch of machines
no.951-970 from the year 1968.
Picture from the Oruro depot in Bolivia by Pekka Ihalainen 2.4.2018.
Inside one of the large Hitachi-Mitsubishi diesels. The basic design of these diesel machines is originally from Germany and the engines are MAN
diesels from Germany dating back to the 1970s. Pekka Ihalainen reports that the depot itself was very similar to its European counterparts and the
feeling was everything is in order and being taken good care of.
Picture from the Oruro depot in Bolivia by Pekka Ihalainen 2.4.2018.
