Steam & Excursion > "The Train at the End of the World"

For those interested in the 60cm narrow gauge operation at the tip of Argentina and it's Garratt powered trains, see my post on the International Board. Additional photos will be posted over the next three days.

http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?6,3610115,3610115#msg-3610115


Cheers,
Jack



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 12/22/14 10:05 by africansteam.

Now...THAT is BROOOOOOAAAAAAADDDDD Gauge. 600cm = just shy of 20 feet. I assume it's 60cm.

Beautiful mountains in that first photo.

rswebber Wrote:
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> Now...THAT is BROOOOOOAAAAAAADDDDD Gauge. 600cm =
> just shy of 20 feet. I assume it's 60cm.

Oops, one too many zeros! Thanks, Ron.

Cheers,
Jack

africansteam Wrote:
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> rswebber Wrote:
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> > Now...THAT is BROOOOOOAAAAAAADDDDD Gauge. 600cm
> =
> > just shy of 20 feet. I assume it's 60cm.
>
> Oops, one too many zeros! Thanks, Ron.
>
> Cheers,
> Jack

Well, actually, 60 cm is a bit too broad anyway! That was the gauge of the original "prison railway", abandoned in 1952. The current "Ferrocarril Austral Fueguino" is built to only 50 cm gauge. I don't know why they picked this over the original 60 cm (which is actually the metricated version of 2 foot gauge), unless it's because some small industrial "tramways" were built to this gauge, so perhaps there is/was some surplus equipment available.

Roger Lewis (airbrakegeezer)