Argentina's Patagonian Trains: Steel across the Steppe

In this episode, Lucas and Luna ride the forgotten rails of Patagonia, from the British-built Ferrocarril del Sud to the La Trochita narrow-gauge line that still chugs through the Andes. They explore how rail transformed Argentina's southern frontier, opening vast sheep estancias and Welsh settlements to global wool markets, and how Perón's nationalizations and the 1970s economic crisis left much of the network to rust. Along the way, they meet the indigenous Tehuelche guides who led early surveyors, the immigrant navvies who laid track on the pampas, and the railway ghost towns that dot the steppe today. A story of ambition, isolation, and the fragile thread connecting Argentina's far south to Buenos Aires.

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