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Trains: between nostalgia and longing for its revival
by Ivan Fischer
Journalist

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train may send us, today, a painful image, because the closest thing we have in our memory, is the tragedy in San Miguel. However, I want to rescue another portrait, the one that perhaps many, transport us to childhood.

Touring the interior of our country, we see, with great sorrow, abandoned train stations or at best, turned into schools, senior centers, club grandparents, museums and headquarters to the municipal authorities ... and to think that, right there ... so many people were born grew up, around, stores, bakeries and basic services to operate a community.

From the 90, with the disappearance of the train, also left devastated many towns, to be out of the main media (and cheaper).

Fortunately today, in some parts of the country is experiencing a "rebirth" of this type of transport. Many families have seen "shake" their homes, when, by the side of the tracks, have felt again the rage of the machines on the tracks, a feeling not experienced in years.

circulate short distances, several places do not have the appropriate signage, and in many cases, insecurity, so characteristic of our times, make their mark on the routes.

Some governments have decided to invest in new start for passenger transport. Investments have been made millionaire, and deficiencies have not yet been settled in full. However, many people, affection, nostalgia or economic advantage, have begun to use them.

Locomotives decrepit tourist attraction

"the old car payment for railway staff is intact at the entrance of the village, reminding visitors that ever here, the train was everything. " Thus described, the daily La Nación that Ibicuy nostalgia, a town of Entre Rios, located 150 kilometers from the Federal Capital, which abandoned its railway tradition and had to get used to living in the river, low fields and tourism.

In Argentina, about 900 people at risk of disappearing. Many of these began its countdown, with the death of the railway service. The stations were converted into places of passage for freight trains and dismantling for old iron bars scattered throughout the journey.

The villages at risk of disappearing share many commonalities, including the completion of the main economic activity that gave it life: the closure of railway stations, in addition to the isolation caused by paving the road away from the old dirt roads, the deterioration of existing routes, lack of public transport, lack of investment by the state in formal and informal education, lack of jobs and lack of access to information.

"answer, identify and promote actions to provide, to the inhabitants of rural people at risk of disappearing or depopulation crisis, social and economic opportunities for the recovery of their communities from their vocation to be overcome, "says the founder of the NGO, Marcela Benítez .

With this work, they say, has been able to "breathe life" to various tourist projects for these villages: We have implemented the program "Tourism in Rural Villages", restoring the train station. There are historical museums have installed postal railway tradition.

The railway was "Midwife" in scattered villages throughout the length of Argentina. Over the years, was losing his men and women in search of new horizons, to large cities. Today it refuses to die and try to reformulate its existence either, harking back the usual "train passengers," the guard's whistle and the bell of the station master, or receiving tourists eager for souvenirs of this great economic engine that moved the country, since its inception.