Ferrocarril Ocampo
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 Estación Central around 1888
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| Gauge : | 1000 mm ( meter gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Ferrocarril Ocampo , also Primer Ferrocarril del Chaco and later Ferrocarril La Forestal , was the first railway to Villa Ocampo in the province of Chaco and in the northeast of the province of Santa Fe in Argentina .
history
The meter- gauge railway was inaugurated on July 26, 1884. It was designed by Manuel Ocampo Samanés to connect the La Carlota sawmill , the Manolo (later Arno ) plant and the Don Emilio distillery near Villa Ocampo with the Puerto San Vicente jetty on Paraná Miní , a branch of the Río Paraná .
The track sections, which were prefabricated according to the French Decauville principle , were used by rail vehicles from Germany. Initially, the route from Villa Adela to Puerto San Vicente was 25 km long. Later, in 1910, it was transferred to the La Forestal company, which expanded it to the west to Villa Ana , where their tannin factory was located, and to the east to Puerto Ocampo. In this way she reached the jetty on the Río Paraná via three large and 27 smaller bridges and several culverts as well as several islands.
The railway had three locomotives, three first-class cars, a multiple unit and 60 bogie cars, four stations, a warehouse and a workshop. In its maximum extent it reached, under the name "FC La Forestal", the station km 366 of the Ramal F del Ferrocarril Belgrano ( es ) , where today the city of Los Tábanos ( es ) is located.
With the decline of the company in the 1960s, the line was dismantled and left only a few traces. The disappearance of this railway meant for many years the separation between Puerto San Vicente on the Paraná Mini river and Puerto Ocampo on the Paraná. Nowadays the former railway embankments are used as roads for car traffic.
Sugar cane loading crane at the Estación Isleta
Estación Adela
La Forestal tannin factory in Villa Ana
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernestina A. López de Nelson: Nuestra tierra. Cuarto libro de lectura. Casa editora "Coni". P. 263.
- ↑ Mauricio Rios Lovisa: Plano de la Colonia Ocampo en el Gran Chaco. In: La Dulce y Cordial.
Coordinates: 28 ° 29 ′ 19 ″ S , 59 ° 20 ′ 44.2 ″ W.