Railways at the End of the World – in Patagonia and the South Atlantic Islands

by Martin Coombs and David Sinclair, will be published by The Araucaria Press in mid-2014. This will be a hardback A4 landscape volume of around 350 pages, covering a similar area to this website under the following main chapter headings:
• Patagonia and the islands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . the geographical and historical background
• The Central Railway of Chubut. . . . . . . . . . . . . .another Welsh narrow gauge railway
• The routes to Neuquén and Patagones . . . . . . the BAGSR stretches out west and south
• Three government broad gauge railways . . . . state railway routes inland from the Atlantic
• The Chilean broad gauge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . the southern extremities of the Red Sur
• Another Transandine attempt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . the ill-fated FC Trasandino por San Martín
• 60 cm. gauge on the Isla Grande de Chiloé . .the EFE’s Ancud to Castro line
• The 1922 75 cm. gauge empire . . . . . . . . . . . . . up the Chubut valley, to Esquel, and to the Río Negro
• Out in the South Atlantic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . railways in the Falklands, and on other islands
• Old and new in Ushuaia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . the erstwhile prison railway, and the new FC Austral Fueguino
• Railways of the estancias and frigoríficos . . .wool and mutton carriers in a variety of locations
• The coal railways. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . principally the FC Mina Loreto and the Río Turbio systems
• Other mineral railways. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . for salt, oil, copper, and even gold!
• An assortment of other industrial lines. . . . . everything from a steelworks system to lighthouse railways!
The book will include a number of drawings of locomotives and other vehicles, maps of rail systems, and plans of stations.

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