Virtual Railfan Tour of South America - Finale

 Today I will repeat some of the pictures which have given me many happy memories of my wanderings across South America. We will take it country by country starting with Paraguay

We waited patiently for this picture at sunset hoping that the light would hold

This was taken a little earlier - a glint shot in the fading light. In both pictures the wood fire is producing very little smoke

At Encarnacion a locomotive was abandoned in the jungle in an area which has now been inundated. There is now no railway in Paraguay.

Bolivia
In the Amazon jungle.

Riding a track car over the then highest operating railway in the world

A steam locomotive graveyard near the Bolivian salt flats

Brazil

Just a short visit but São João Del Rei produced some great memories


Rio Negrino - firing a steam locomotive

Chile

Temuco. A roundhouse filled with steam locomotives

A narrow gauge excursion on a line that formerly crossed the Andes into Argentina

A steam locomotive in the Atacama dessert

Uruguay

Another short visit which produced a diesel hauling a steam locomotive tender in order to be able to couple on to its train.

Ecuador

Passengers riding on the roof in the lowland out of Guayaquil

Watching a locomotive being rerailed at Bucay

The incredible Devil's Nose switchbacks

At the summit in the Valley of Fire

Peru

Near Galera summit

Two Montreal built locomotives with consecutive numbers side by side on different gauge track at Huancayo

Climbing up to La Oroya and the Cerro de Pasco

A meet in the Peruvian jungle beyond Machu Picchu, this section now closed

Argentina

Fan trip out of Buenos Aires behind a beautifully restored shark nosed diesel

Drinking mate on the locomotive

My very own train at El Maiten, Patagonia

The incomparable Patagonian narrow gauge


Wonderful memories.












 

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