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    The Andean Railway (native name: Ferrocarril Andino) was a state-owned railway company in Argentina which, towards the end of the 19th century, built and...
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    The Trans-Andean railways provide rail transport over the Andes. Several are either planned, built, defunct, or waiting to be restored. They are listed...
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    Central Trans-Andean Railway project which runs from Callao to Huancayo. In the latter part of the 1880s, the principal public railways, the Central and...
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    Argentina - Central Trans-Andean Railway - abandoned 1984 – 100 km of mountain railway of 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) gauge with rack railway sections - break of...
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    Huapi railway companies. The BAP had previously acquired the Villa María & Rufino (1900), Argentine Great Western Railway (1907), and a part of Andean (1909)...
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    highest railways in the world South Trans-Andean Railway (Argentina-Chile): proposed line linking Zapala to Lonquimay. Trans-Andean railways: rail services...
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  • various other means, including an ambitious attempt to construct a Trans-Andean Railway. A rubber baron shows Fitzcarraldo a map and explains that, while the...
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    undervalued sales to British investors, including the 1,000 km (621 mi) long Andean Railway, which provoked much anti-British sentiment in the country. By 1910...
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    Bolivia" (FCAB) uses the railways to transport cargo to and from Bolivia, and also connects its line with the Andean Railway of Bolivia, Ferronor in Chile...
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    Central railway in Peru linking the Pacific port of Callao and the capital Lima with Huancayo and Cerro de Pasco. As one of the Trans-Andean Railways it is...
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  • The Belmond Andean Explorer, launched in May 2017, is South America's first luxury sleeper train. It replaces the eponymous Pullman day train, between...
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    of the Qinghai–Tibet Railway in China, currently the highest in the world, the highest three railways were located in the Andean countries of Peru and...
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    Rafael de Sobremonte. Its first rail connection was by way of the former Andean Railway in 1870, after which the village grew rapidly with the influx of Italian...
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    railway station located in the city of the same name in Argentina. It was inaugurated in 1885 and originally operated by state-owned Andean Railway (then...
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    May 2017 when the Belmond Andean Explorer was inaugurated. There is a dual gauge track connection between the San Pedro railway station (914 mm or 3 ft...
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    Ernest Malinowski (category Railway civil engineers)
    itself. Thanks to these works, the Trans-Andean railway climbed 4,817.8 m above sea level, reaching the highest railway point in the world in the town called...
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    Narrow gauge railways of Switzerland (in English and German) El Ferrocarril Trasandino Los Andes – Mendoza, Argentina (Trans-Andean Railways) (all others...
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    Present. Oxford University Press. 2005. p. 213. "Polish-born Trans-Andean Railway constructor born 200 years ago". Archived from the original on 3 May...
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    portal Transport in Bolivia Interoceanic Highway Trans-Andean railways Brazil's Devil's Railway gets new lease of life BBC "Buscan apoyo chino para tren...
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    sunny and stable days and cool nights. Argentina portal South Trans-Andean railway "Loma Negra cement". Loma Negra. Retrieved 5 April 2019. Luis Casabal...
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    worked as an engineer, circa 1900, he designed and built the Trans-Andean railway which at the time was the world's highest elevation railroad. At the...
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    Present. Oxford University Press. 2005. p. 213. "Polish-born Trans-Andean Railway constructor born 200 years ago". Retrieved 30 April 2023. Bruno Abdank-Abakanowicz...
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    took eleven days. List of road-rail bridges Trans-Andean railways H. R. Stones, British Railways in Argentina 1860–1948, P.E. Waters & Associates, Bromley...
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    Trans-Andean Railway link between Zapala, Argentina and Lonquimay, Chile. 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) gauge in both countries. Chile - Transandine Railway between...
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  • Aires from Mercedes using the tracks of the Western Railway, then connecting with the Andean Railway whose rails reached Mendoza and San Juan. Work began...
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    gauge networks, the Transandine Railway was constructed but is not currently in service. See also Trans-Andean railways.) Most other countries have few...
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  • building a trans-Andean railway line in April 2006 that will connect Argentina and Chile. Construction of the new Transandino del Sur railway will begin near...
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  • that crosses the Andes like the: Trans-Andean railways Transandine Railway, Argentina and Chile Trans-Andean Highway, Venezuela Transandino pipeline...
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  • child to Chile, where her father, an engineer, worked on the trans-Andean railway. She remained in Chile until she was approximately 15 years old. Her...
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    the south of Buenos Aires Province to Río Cuarto in the joint with Andean Railway and Villa Mercedes in the joint with BA & Pacific, via cities of General...
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