Rail Transport in Argentina - Tourist Railways

Tourist Railways

Buenos Aires

• The "Tramway Histórico de Buenos Aires" is a Heritage Tramway inaugurated In 1980 in the Caballito neighborhood on existing vintage street tracks.

Córdoba

• Tren de las Sierras (Train of the mountain range region) is a 150 km 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄₈ in) Metre gauge metre gauge railway line between Rodriguez del Busto station in the centre of the city of Córdoba and Capilla del Monte. It's popular with tourists because of its scenic route through the "Sierras Chicas" of Córdoba Province.

Salta

• Tren a las Nubes in the province of Salta crosses canyons and cliffs before arriving to the 3,775 metres (12,385 ft) of San Antonio de los Cobres.

Mendoza

• A heritage railway or tourist railroad, "The Wine Train" (Tren del Vino) is being planned which will also provide transportation to locals, it will run along wine producing districts of Mendoza.

Misiones

• The Rainforest Ecological Train is a small environmentally friendly train runs through the forest inside Iguazú National Park in the north of the province of Misiones in Argentina.

Patagonia

• The narrow-gauge Old Patagonian Express, (Viejo Expreso Patagónico) known locally as La Trochita, is a 402 km long narrow gauge 750 mm (2 ft 5 1⁄₂ in) heritage railway in Patagonia, Argentina using steam locomotives. It is said to be the only narrow-gauge long-distance steam train in operation in the world.

• Tren Histórico de Bariloche is a short run to Perito Moreno, 4-6-0 steam manufactured in Scotland in 1912 by the North British Locomotive Company in Glasgow, the Cedar and Mahogany carriages were originally Made in England.

Tierra del Fuego

• The "Ferrocarril Austral Fueguino", called Tren del Fin del Mundo - "The Train at the End of the World" or Southern Fuegian Railway, is the world's southernmost railway in the province of Tierra del Fuego, operating on narrow gauge 500 mm (19 3⁄₄ in), using steam locomotives. Presently being restored with modern steam by Eng. Shaun McMahon.