In 1953 ALCo. introduced the DL500 specification, the "World" locomotive intended for the export market, with the fielding of demonstrator unit #1953C, built in Canada's ALCO. subsidiary MLW. Four... (more)

While the trees begin to show the first signs of a soon-to-arrive Spring and their bare branches blossom in new colours, Nuevo Central Argentino Railroad's GR12W #6596 passes the suburban station ... (more)

With a fully loaded cut of ballast hoppers in tow, Ferrosur Roca Railroad's GM-EMD GT22 #9019 charges upgrade after having crossed the bridge over the Riachuelo River, about a kilometer behind the... (more)

General Roca Railroad's trains number 318 from Tandil and 346 from General Alvear, consolidated as a single train from Cañuelas to its destination at Plaza Constitución terminal, pass Kilo. 5 Ya... (more)

ALCo.-MLW FPD7 #8406 pulls away from the Palmira Yard with an empty train of oil tank cars and trailing dead-in-tow ALCo. RSD16 #8488, entering the eastbound (down) main of the double track mainli... (more)

With its journey from Mendoza to Buenos Aires soon to be completed, General San Martín Railroad's premier train, number 562 "El Libertador" turns the bend into the bridge that carries the mainlin... (more)

After the trial runs of July 1986, the General Mitre Railroad instituted the haulage of container cars in the consist of passenger trains between Buenos Aires, Córdoba and Tucumán. Trains number... (more)

Ferrocarril General Roca's General Electric export-model U18C #8102, by then downgraded to switcher duties, brings the empty coaches of premier-train number 103, "El Marplatense", to begin its dai... (more)

High in the Andean Puna of northern Argentina, General Belgrano Railroad's C-14 line climbs from the City of Salta to Socompa, international border town with the Republic of Chile, reaching the sa... (more)

The 186 km. branch of the General Belgrano Railroad between Villars and Patricios was the remnant of a swiftly vanishing mode of cost-reduction operation of branch lines during the 80's: the mixed... (more)

The RFIRT (Ramal Ferro-Industrial Río Turbio) was the southernmost freight railroad in the American Continent, hauling coal trains across the Patagonian plateau from the mines close to the Andean... (more)

Galpón San Martín was one of the very small group of running sheds in Argentina with a "roundhouse" layout. And in August 1994 it was certainly the only one which remained operational. Ferrosur ... (more)

Ferrosur Roca's General Electric export-model U18C #8114 helps disabled Nuevo Central Argentino's GM-EMD GT22 #9103 to complete her run into Kilo. 5 Yard, in the southern surroundings of Buenos Ai... (more)

After having reached Las Flores with the glow of the first rays of a rising Winter sun, Ferrosur Roca's GT22 #9009 has reassembled her trains and is about to resume his northbound run to Buenos Ai... (more)

Buenos Aires al Pacifico's ALCo. RSD16 #8509 charges with a train of empty coal gondolas through the boundaries of the San Justo station, 5 kilometres away from the junction of the branch with the... (more)