updonkey logo
1 2 3 4 5 6 Next»    All Photo Sets

Photo Sets » Huancayo - Train, Peru

View Slideshow
This train has been on-again/off-again for many years. I tried to ride it in 2003, to no avail. By pure chance I saw an ad in the paper in Lima that the train was starting to run again. The first few photo s are of the station, then on to the train. There are some other photos of a train from Huancayo to Huancavelica that I took that runs every day. Apparently this town was really critical for it's mercury mines (used in the smelting of silver) during the period when Potosi, Bolivia was the wealthiest place on Earth due to its silver mine. Good trains.

DSC03012

DSC03013

DSC03014

DSC03015

DSC03016

DSC03017

DSC03018

DSC03019

DSC03020

DSC03021

DSC03022

DSC03023

DSC03024

DSC03025

DSC03026

DSC03027

DSC03028

DSC03029

DSC03030

DSC03031

DSC03032

DSC03033

DSC03034

DSC03036