Train to the Clouds - Northwestern Argentina Salta

The most amazing train of the world, the one that goes to the clouds, ascends up to 4200 metres and travels 217 kilometres.

Salta in very well known all over the world for this triumph of engineering directed by Richard Fontaine Maury.

Nineteen tunnels, twenty-nine bridges, nine sheds are the main colossal works this clever engineer imagined to travel over the Andes.

The Train is an unique excursion that leaves from the central station in Salta - 1187 metres above the sea level- and reaches the viaduct La Polvorilla, 4200 metres above the sea level.

The fist station is Alvarado, then Rosario de Lerma, Campo Quijano, Quebrada del toro, Alisal, Puerta de Tastil, Diego de Almagro, Cachinal and, finally, San Antonio de los Cobres.

During the trip, that takes fifteen hours, the train "flies" over thirteen viaducts and iron bridges.
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