The Washington Post, March 5th, 1989
Nestled in the foothills of the Andes, deep in the Argentine Patagonia, Esquel is a plain, workaday town, just beginning to gain notoriety as a resort for skiing, fishing and hiking. Yet this attractively unpretentious spot is not without distinctive features. It is, for example, the southernmost point in South America linked by contiguous rail to the rest of the continent's system. The railway from Esquel is a branch of the General Roca system, one of the five originally independent systems that now form the nationalized Ferrocarril Argentinos (Railroads of Argentina). The Esquel railway is n...
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