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TR292 - May 2023
TR292 - May 2023
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Where are the photos? When we relate the history of our railways we
find an overwhelming scarcity of photos, both of places and trains. On the
other hand, the photos of ferroaficionados of the world who have come to
the country to portray the emblematic trains of the time are well known,
mainly from 1970 to 1980, when there were still steam operations and in
the world they had already ended. But before? . Many locomotives are
known by a single photo and many others are not known. One concludes
that there were almost no train photography enthusiasts. And it was not
easy to take photographs, less of the good ones, for which it was
necessary a professional equipment that only the railway could have.
Today, with the ease of portraying anything from our phone, it is difficult
for us to understand why there are no photos of old trains.
GAIA locomotives
The great solution to affect 280 locomotive engines that had not
been used for years and convert them into 280 useful diesel
locomotives, and also giving low steam traction of at least one
railway. Finally it did not happen as planned, and the diesel
controversies had very varied fates, from very early withdrawn
to reach the present day even with that old engine. Read more.
A peculiar formation
Chris Skow is one of the many ferroaficionados who came to
Argentina to take pictures of the Belgrano Railway in its northern
section, when the large steam locomotives dominated, a scene
he no longer saw in his country of origin. This time he tells us a
delicious anecdote that he lived in those times. Read more.