Machacamarca Railway Museum
| Data | |
|---|---|
| place | Machacamarca |
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| opening | 2009 |
The Const. Museo Ferroviario Machacamarca is a railway museum in Machacamarca in Oruro Department in Bolivia .
In the museum you can see a collection of historical railway vehicles that document the railway history of Bolivia. The locomotives on display belonged to the mining industrialist Simón I. Patiño .
The museum has been in the workshops of the Patiño mine since 2009 , where the Ferrocarril Machacamarca-Uncía (FCMU) railway company was founded in 1911, with whose ore trains the ore from the Patiño mines of Llallagua , Catavi , Siglo XX , Uncía and Huanuni was evacuated.
Picture gallery
Rail Car (2010)
Rail bus (2010)
Diesel locomotive (2010)
Diesel-electric locomotive (2010)
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans-Bernhard Schönborn: The Crocodiles - Locomotive Legends - Electric Locomotives from SBB, ÖBB, RhB and DB , transpress Verlag, Stuttgart, 1st edition 2014, p. 121, ISBN 978-3-613-71482-3
- ↑ Museo Ferroviario de Machacamarca In: La Región October 22, 2015 ( Spanish ) (accessed February 8, 2018)
- ↑ Charles Geddes. Patiño: Rey del estaño. Madrid 1984: AG Grupo SA. ISBN 84-499-6850-X
Web links
Commons : Machacamarca Railway Museum - album with pictures, videos and audio files
- Two pairs of Bolivian 'Sulzer' ( English ) (accessed February 8, 2018)