Take a ride on the railway, the world's thinnest-track, the city begins in the southern hemisphere, a red thread through spectacular National Park scenery, surrounded by dazzling white, horizontal, end of the world characteristic of snow, and fill the tracks its history in a prison that was built from certain, only around the area and you have a travel experience of fascinating proportions.
The A-framed wooden registered, Alpine-style building at the terminalEstacion del Fin del Mundo, with its corrugated iron roof, was the Camping Municipal Ground of Tierra del Fuego National Park in Argentina, eight kilometers from Ushuaia, capital of the current Argentine Patagonia, the position of Neuquén, Río Negro was Indoor, Chubut and Tierra del Fuego province. The very narrow view of the world train, consisting of small steam locomotive at the front and his eight wood, painted green, boxy-coaches as it was behindlulled by the thin, almost like toys in length behind the glass doors from the lobby end of the platform, drivers in uniform open 15 minutes prior to scheduled departure in 1255, punching tickets and emit a crowd of passengers.
The end of the train world itself arose from the parameters of two channels must then populate the barren island of Tierra del Fuego at the southern tip of South America, and establish a prison sentence, which the countryThe criminals could be sent. On October 12, 1884 was founded in Tierra del Fuego government together to Ushuaia, the world's southernmost city, 3,000 kilometers south of Buenos Aires and 4000 km north of the south pole of the earth.
The train, on tracks from the beginning of wood, served two purposes, ie material for the construction of a military prison, the bear has been completed in 1902, and prisoners and workers in waysthe city of new training and equipment. The guides replaced by steel in 1910, facilitates the permanent service began the following year and quickly earned the reputation of "Convict Train."
Four German steam locomotives provided the original performance, a 0-4-0 built by Orenstein and Koppel Manufactured in Berlin, two 20-hp, 0-6 1910 0TS also by Orenstein and Koppel and Arn 0-8, 1928-0T . Jung.
The prisoners usually ride the train prison before sunrise, sittingDuring his flatbed cars with their feet dangling over the sides during the 27-km race at Lapataia, where the wood is cut from the middle of the sub-Antarctic cold all day, while other trips to replenish the fire box of the locomotive wood during the '. In winter, the road is often had split. After the return men to the top of the wooden horse or train ran alongside, guarded.
The prison situation in the center of the island permanently surroundedcovered by the frozen lake, forests and mountains, plagued by brutal cold, and access to only six times a year by the Argentine military ships to the Strait of Magellan treacherous ruled surf to escape and he deserves the fame of "Argentine Siberia and had the "black hole of the South".
On March 21, 1947 Juan Domingo Peron, Argentina President signed the decree that ended Ushuaia prison after 45 years of operation without any railway line, which had been used,it.
I am looking for the line in working to restore, preserve the history and the provision of rail services for both locals and tourists who created Tranex Tourism Ferrocarril Austral Fuerguino (FCAF), with its first title in 1993 by Camping Municipal in Tierra del Fuego National Park and the railway embankment after Convict original, which follows most of them were eroded over the safe reuse. The guides, which had been previously isolated from Ferro Industrial Rio Turbo used in the neighboring province of Santa Cruz and weighed 17 kg per meter, extending over seven kilometers - six miles in length and a main line to be used for auxiliary staff. The length, thirty feet long and 1,400 rail covers, was of 1,400 cards, which were linked together by four screws for a total of 5,600. The threshold of 6,500 was separated by a space of 75 centimeters. The one meter diameter, after peaking at 2.8 percent slope, formed world's smallest gauge railway line.
Various locomotives andCars> was used during construction. Two Ruston Hornsby and units which are built originally in England, but then restored by Tranex Carupano featured in a two-cylinder engine, air cooled and were subsequently rudimentary weather protection cabins. Used to pull flatbed and low-loader carrying the equipment required for project construction of the railway. Cars, also restored buildings and laboratories present Carupano welded steel frame and steelSoils and the length varies depending on the mission for the transport of application of ballast stones and loose rails.
He was scheduled for 11 was reopened in October 1994, the 110th Anniversary of the founding of the city of Ushuaia and the locomotive was "Rodrigo has been operated," a 1938 steam engine built by Orenstein and Koppel, but the last with built-in cockpit closer to the engine that had powered the original ConvictTrain.
The 12 cars 1.2 meters wide, steel box-tube construction, welded mahogany walls marked with seven coats of varnish inside and contained eight dual-view, red upholstery, two abreast, 60 "seats off laterally separated by a table of solid wood for a total capacity of 16 first-class cars, and on access was by a very narrow aisles and a central opening to the outside door. The tourist class trainer Triple bank of blue dot paddedthree side-by-40 inches wide seats, the nave, tableless four dual-side opening doors that open outward. The car only restaurant, which features seats galley passenger capacity, a, and a basement, wearing a red paint outside. I drove for the type of class, numerically designated 1100th car
The standard locomotive fleet consisted of three engines: steam "Livio Dante Porta Ingeniero", with steam "Camila" and "tierra diesel-hydraulicFire, "which was mainly used for repair and maintenance.
Pulling from wood-log, Alpine Estacion del Fin del Mundo in 1255, the eight-car train headed by locomotive minute, emitting steam whistle, followed by one meters, narrow track through dense, dark woods whirling storm snow on its six miles of track in the National Park station. The low bushes, rivers and grazing horses wearing white coats, whilegray granite and dark green rock rising almost perpendicularly from the right pane, indistinguishably a silhouette coach charcoal had been reduced.
After the close, almost like the tracks of toys that multiplies into two, the train for the two branches, separated by a fence and ended raw logs remained curved movement Puente Quemado, his only support, access to the waterfalls .
This locomotive pulled my train, a classic design built by British Steam WinsonEngineering and the name "Camila," characterized by a furnace installed in the rear, the flammable material held in the wooden form, coal or oil. When lit, it produced the desired temperature for water in two large boilers installed side by side in their tank domes, its highest point, located in the hot dry steam harvest. Throttle controlled, was distributed through two cylinders, connecting rods, turning the wheels. valve controlled fuel injectors, with storage pressureproduce a flow greater than that of the same pressure, the water forced into the boiler, as measured and indicated by meter cab. An additional air compressor set for braking, while the battery provides power. The box is equipped with smoke that the channel chimney through the smoke and steam escaped after all.
Issuing a first explosion, the train out of white smoke and translate the movement of the piston-wheel ignition, the train puffingPuente Quemado white swirling blur of snow covering the mountains and reduced them, however, patches of darker barely distinguishable from the station through the blinding, horizontal flows of frozen flakes. meandering rivers have been reduced to silver mirrors.
Start the Tierra del Fuego National Park for a race of two miles, the train across the flat, arid, tree stump ground moves ubiquitous as "known cemetery tree. The sky in a bright blue and the crackedfluffy white mountains became visible again reflected from the liquidation, silver, mirror-Pipo River. The white-covered valley, lay a real winter wonderland for the peaks rising.
Tierra del Fuego national park itself, formed by glaciation, it was only about 10,000 years ago by Yamana, a tribe in the dome-shaped huts made of branches and green boughs, lived hunted seals, sea lion and fur clothes worn went canoeing Lenga in the structure of the cortex. Afterwas followed by exposure and disease brought by Europeans, the race reduces rapidly decreased from 3,000 to only 100 during the 30 years between 1880 and 1910.
The park itself was created in 1960 with the signing of Law # 15,554, and included the 63 000 hectares between Lake Kami north and the cost of the Beagle Channel. The diverse vegetation of high Andean steppe and southern beech forests with an abundance of evergreen trees ranging from Lenga and peat, and itsmajor domestic mammals, including Fuegians Red Fox and the guanaco.
Belching steam flows thick white, green swept through the chain of narrow, like a veil, wrapped small buses and transient blurred vision from the windows, mini-Lok degrees climbed the moderate length and moved its eight-tourism packed car into a curved arc to the right by a thin, brown bark forest. After the propagation length of single sporescurrently four, the left engine and most of them were pulled into the platform velocity and the National Park branched chug station in 1335 with a final.
Since all the doors were open and about 100 passengers boarded the gravel, drove a locomotive Camila last, tired of hissing steam.
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