List of narrow gauge railways in Argentina
List of narrow gauge railways in Argentina:
| province | Surname | length | Gauge | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buenos Aires | Ferrocarril del Sud, Sección Balcarce | 147 km | 600 mm |
 Locomotives: 27 passenger cars: 5 freight cars: 1422 Invested capital: 3,201,640 pesos |
| Buenos Aires | Ferrocarril del Sud, Sección Cascallares | 94 km | 600 mm | |
| Buenos Aires | Ferrocarril del Sud, Sección Copetonas | 62 km | 600 mm | |
| Buenos Aires | Ferrocarril del Sud, Sección Orense | 70 km | 600 mm | |
| Buenos Aires | Ferrocarril del Oeste, Desvío Moreno | 3 km | 500 mm | |
| Buenos Aires | Ferrocarril del Oeste, Desvío Rodríguez | 1 km | 600 mm | |
| Buenos Aires | Ferrocarril del Oeste, Epecuén | 4 km | 600 mm | |
| Buenos Aires | Ferrocarril del Oeste, Basílica | 1 km | 750 mm | |
| Buenos Aires | Ferrocarril del Oeste, Ituzaingó | 2 km | 1000 mm | |
| Buenos Aires | Decauville Railways of Ferrocarril Puerto - Los Talas | 4 km | 600 mm | |
| Buenos Aires | Ferrocarril Decauville Molino Bancalari | 5 km | 600 mm | Opening around 1889 |
| Buenos Aires | Ramal de Balneario Ostend | 3 km | 600 mm |
.jpg) Opening in 1913 |
| Buenos Aires | Cia Bellani y Fenga | 1000 mm | Locomotives: 1 freight car: 2 Invested capital: 44,000 pesos |
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| Buenos Aires | Ferrocarriles y Elevadores Depietri | 86 km | 1000 mm |
 1936-1948 |
| Buenos Aires | Subtotal: | 392 km | ||
| Catamarca | Desvío que pertenece al ferrocarril Central de Córdoba | 45 km | 1000 mm | |
| Catamarca | Subtotal: | 45 km | ||
| Chaco | Desvío Cía. Quebrachales Fusionados (Puerto Tirol) | 65 km | 600 mm | Locomotives: 6 passenger wagons : 5 freight wagons: 35 meter weights : 3, 10, 12 kg / m in track sections of 7 m length General transport services |
| Chaco | Desvíio CB Svensen (km 665 FCCN-A.) | 8 kilometers | 600 mm | Forest railway |
| Chaco | Desvíio G. Weisburd (Estación General Pinedo) | 11 km | 600 mm | Forest railway |
| Chaco | Zuberbühler | 69 km | 600 mm | Forest railway |
| Chaco | Desvío Cía. Ganadera y Forestal | 60 km | 750 mm | Forest railway |
| Chaco | FC Rural de Resistencia | 30 km | 750 mm |
 Locomotives: 6 Passenger Cars: 5 Freight Cars: 35 Capital Invested: 70,400 Pesos General Transport Services |
| Chaco | Desvío Noetinger y Lepetit | 2 km | 1000 mm | Forest railway |
| Chaco | Las Selvas del Chaco | 15 km | 1000 mm | Forest railway |
| Chaco | Desvío Mualen | 12 km | 1000 mm | Locomotives 4 freight cars: 63 Multiple transport services |
| Chaco | Desvío Damiani | 12 km | 1000 mm | Forest and freight railway |
| Chaco | Desvío Cía. La Forestal Ltda. (Cotelay) | 25 km | 1000 mm | Forest railway |
| Chaco | Desvío Cía. La Forestal Ltda. (Haumonia al NO) | 37 km | 1000 mm | Carrier |
| Chaco | Desvío M Cía. Quebrachales Fusionados (Oetling al NO) | 30 km | 1000 mm | |
| Chaco | Desvio Cía. Fontana Lda (Río Arazá) | 3 km | 1000 mm | Forest railway |
| Chaco | Desvío Cía. La Industrial (La Vícuña) | 12 km | 1000 mm | |
| Chaco | Desvío CB Svensen (km 665 FCCNA) | 21 km | 1000 mm | Forest railway |
| Chaco | Desvío Zuberbühler | 25 km | 1000 mm | |
| Chaco | Subtotal: | 437 km | ||
| Chubut | Ferrocarril de Península Valdés | 32 km | 762 mm |
 1901-1920 |
| Cordoba | Desvío Establecimiento La Calera | 11 km | 600 mm | Limestone transport |
| Cordoba | Desvío Bourdichone y Cía. | 3 km | 600 mm | Limestone transport |
| Cordoba | Desvío Minetti | 4 km | 600 mm | Limestone transport |
| Cordoba | Desvío Malagueño | 5 km | 600 mm | Limestone transport |
| Cordoba | Desvío Deffilipi (Valle Hermoso) | 5 km | 600 mm | Limestone transport |
| Cordoba | Desvío Deffilipi (Valle Hermoso) | 6 km | 1000 mm | Lime and limestone transport |
| Cordoba | Subtotal: | 34 km | ||
| Corrientes | Ferrocarril Correntino | 226 km | 600 mm |
 Locomotives: 3 passenger cars: 11 freight cars: 230 meter weight : 12 and 18 kg / m Invested capital: 2,200,000 pesos |
| Corrientes | Subtotal: | 226 km | ||
| Formosa | Desvío a la Estancia Guaycolec | 35 km | 600 mm | |
| Formosa | Desvío a la Cía. Argent. de Quebracho | 37 km | 600 mm | |
| Formosa | Ferrocarril Decauville Oswald | 14 km | 600 mm |
 1916-1954 |
| Formosa | Subtotal: | 86 km | ||
| Jujuy | Desvío Ingenio Ledesmá | 86 km | 500 mm |
 Sugar cane transport |
| Jujuy | Desvío Hardcastle | 10 km | 600 mm | Multiple transportation services |
| Jujuy | Desvío Grondona y Cía. | 12 km | 600 mm | |
| Jujuy | Desvío H. Pemberton | 7 km | 600 mm | Forest railway |
| Jujuy | Desvío M. Flores | 7 km | 600 mm | |
| Jujuy | Desvío La Mendieta | 24 km | 600 mm | Locomotives: 6 freight cars: 535 Invested capital: 168,930 pesos Sugar cane transport |
| Jujuy | Desvío Ingenio Ledesma | 97 km | 700 mm |
 Sugar cane transport |
| Jujuy | Desvío Industrial y Forestal de Yuto | 26 km | 750 mm | |
| Jujuy | Subtotal: | 269 km | ||
| Mendoza | Desvío Industrial de Mendoza | 18 km | 750 mm | |
| Mendoza | Subtotal: | 18 km | ||
| Misiones | Door Ecológico de la Selva | 7 km | 600 mm |
Tourism - narrow-gauge railway opening: 2001 |
| Misiones | Subtotal: | 7 km | ||
| Patagonia | Viejo Expreso Patagonico (La Trochita) | 402 km | 750 mm | |
| Patagonia | Subtotal: | 402 km | ||
| Salta | Desvío Ing.San Martín (El Tabacal) | 107 km | 600 mm | Sugar cane transport |
| Salta | Desvío San Isidro | 15 km | 600 mm | Sugar cane transport |
| Salta | Desvío Esperanza | 81 km | 600 mm | Sugar cane transport |
| Salta | Subtotal: | 203 km | ||
| Santa Fe | Sección Gallareta | 30 km | 600 mm | |
| Santa Fe | Sección Gallareta | 30 km | 750 mm | |
| Santa Fe | Sección Gallareta | 137 km | 1000 mm | |
| Santa Fe | Sección Villa Ana | 48 km | 1000 mm | |
| Santa Fe | Sección Villa Ana | 83 km | 600 mm | |
| Santa Fe | Sección Villa Guillermina | 219 km | 750 mm | |
| Santa Fe | Sección Villa Guillermina | 4 km | 1000 mm | |
| Santa Fe | Desvío La Papelera Argentina | 4 km | 600 mm | |
| Santa Fe | Desvío Pedro Gasparetti | 12 km | 1000 mm | |
| Santa Fe | Desvío Puerto Ocampo | 53 km | 1000 mm | General transport services. |
| Santa Fe | Desvío Juan Arronga | 17 km | 1000 mm | |
| Santa Fe | Subtotal: | 637 km | ||
| Santiago del Estero | Desvío Compagno Hnos. | 50 km | 600 mm | Forest railway |
| Santiago del Estero | Desvío Enrique S. Pérez | 16 km | 600 mm | Forest railway |
| Santiago del Estero | Desvío Donadeu y Cía. Ld. | 60 km | 600 mm | Forest railway |
| Santiago del Estero | Desvío El Dorado | 46 km | 600 mm | Forest railway |
| Santiago del Estero | Desvío A. Cabezas | 47 km | 600 mm | Forest railway |
| Santiago del Estero | Desvío Castiglioni | 58 km | 600 mm | Forest and freight railway |
| Santiago del Estero | Desvío Demartiní | 62 km | 750 mm | Forest railway |
| Santiago del Estero | Desvío Weisburd | 51 km | 1000 mm | Forest railway |
| Santiago del Estero | Desvío FCC Cordoba | 41 km | 1000 mm | |
| Santiago del Estero | Subtotal: | 431 km | ||
| Tierra del Fuego | Ferrocarril Austral Fueguino | 7 km | 500 mm | Opening: 1909 Closure: 1952 Reopening: 1994 |
| Tierra del Fuego | Subtotal: | 7 km | ||
| Tucuman | Desvío Ingenio Aguilares | 8 kilometers | 600 mm |
 Sugar cane transport |
| Tucuman | Desvío Los Ralos | 6 km | 600 mm | |
| Tucuman | Desvío La Providencia | 18 km | 600 mm | |
| Tucuman | Desvío Cía. A. Conccp. | 52 km | 600 mm | |
| Tucuman | Desvío La Bavicra | 34 km | 650 mm | Sugar cane transport |
| Tucuman | Desvío Padilla Hnos. | 24 km | 750 mm | Locomotives: 4 freight cars: 150 meter weight : 12 kg / m sugar cane transport |
| Tucuman | Desvío La Florida | 12 km | 750 mm | Sugar cane transport |
| Tucuman | Gobierno de la Provincia | 12 km | 750 mm | passenger traffic |
| Tucuman | Tranvia rural a vapor de Yerba Buena ( Trencito ) | 12 km | 750 mm |
 1916-1926 |
| Tucuman | Desvío Ingenio San Pablo | 11 km | 1000 mm | Locomotives: 1 freight car: 8 meter weight : 10 kg / m sugar cane transport |
| Tucuman | Desvio Ingenio Cia. Azucarera Bella Vista | 13 km | 1000 mm | Sugar cane transport |
| Tucuman | Desvío Santa Lucía | 17 km | 1000 mm | Sugar cane transport |
| Tucuman | Ferrocarril C. de Córdoba | 81 km | 1000 mm | |
| Tucuman | Subtotal: | 300 km | ||
| total | 3480 km |
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. Transportation Division: World Survey of Foreign Railways, Part 1. 1936, footer: pp. 13–14e, header: pp. 9–15. See also: Stanford Library.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu bv bw bx by bz ca E.ES: Ferrrocarriles Argentinos. 1937. pp. 177-185. (40.4 MB)
- ^ Dirección Nacional de Ferrocarriles, 1937.
- ↑ Rodolfo Richard-Jorba and Marta S. Bonaudo: Historia Regional - Enfoques y articulaciones para complejizar una historia nacional.