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I am a descendant of the British settlers who came to build and run the railways. I made miniature models of the original early 20th-century carriages. It's a shame they couldn't see them.

As usual a fantastic journey with Chris .

That company MAERSK really does get around.

The Hitler in Patagonia story is just a romantic fairytale to attract  tourism and sell books. Hitler shot himself in a Barlin bunker. There are plenty of witnesses to that event.

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He grandfather may have moved there from france, but he couldn't look more like a welshman from patigonia, if he tried!

In 2021, I traveled from Buenos Aires to Mar del Plata. The carriages and locomotive were Chinese. Argentina used to have a magnificent railway system, but that was 80 years ago. Today, it’s a disaster.

The problem with this railway, to keep on, is the time it takes to travel to Bariloche/Esquel comparing with a flight. Buenos Aires to Bariloche 24 hours, and to Esquel 36 hours, with connection in Ingeniero Jacobacci to La Trochita. With fligth you arrive to Bariloche in 2 Hours and to Esquel in 2 and aa half hours, The tracks still exist, 1800 km to Bariloche and 500 km more to Esquel, the problem is maintenance. The tracks are getting improve as long as cargo trains runs with more frequency. Only the Rio Negro Province decide to mantain the last section of the track, from Videma to Bariloche, that runs complete in Rio Negro Pronvince 700 km. A new train from Buenos Aires to Bnariloche will serve mostly backpakers, since skiers on winter use fligth to go there. Bur maybe in a couple of years (when cargo traffic improve tracks) a new passenger train will be running again

Chris, I met you at Slimbridge bird sanctuary, fifty years ago.  I was eleven.  You were a television presenter then.  How fucking old are you?  You're looking good.

A crazy Argentinian president took his country to war to bolster his own collapsing position.

The Adolf Hitler part is intriguing ... the evidence strongly suggests that this is true and that he lived out his life in Argentina/Paraguay.  He had all the resources to plan his escape, including U-boats. He would have done that as a coward, rather than standing his ground during the Russian invasion. If many SS Nazis were already there, why not him? He would have fled before anyone.  Now this would be a great documentary in 2026 if someone could gather fresh new evidence. Russians or Americans had a reason to hide this from the world, in return for weapons and rocket technology the nazis had. It's a cruel world, and I wouldn't be so naive to think he was killed by Russians. Hell, if I had funding, I'd go on the hunt!!!!!

An arrogant brit putting down another country and claiming they  build it.  What a surprise

Germany was defeated in WW2 but not the Nazis. They won the war and infiltrated USA. But majority of human are brainwashed to believe that the Allied side won the war.

Chris seems like a real pig to me. All he can do is talk negative about everything he’s seeing. Additionally, he keeps making it sound like the British were magnanimous to build railroad stations and railroads and give them to the Argentinian when the real purpose was so that they could come in and steal the riches of the land and take it back to England.

As for the 'gap' in your train travels, and having to use the bus, reminded me that in 1936 GM and the Firestone tire comp. along with several other auto manufacturers conspired to purchase than systematically destroy local trolley train tracks sys! This allowed GM to then sell buses to local municipalities, and Firestone supplied GM's tires! There were a couple of trials, which didn't resolve really anything the the train tracks were gone, the land was gone, really too bad, just corporate... greed
                                                                                             Cheers!
PS.  "mind the gap"

Digamos la verdad. Perón nacionalizó los ferrocarriles en 1948 para que sean de uso popular y sirvieran a los intereses nacionales, pero los que comenzaron su desguace, después de derrocar a Perón en 1955, fueron los gobiernos militares y finalmente el gobierno neoliberal de Carlos Menem les dio el tiro de gracia. Todos trabajaron para achicarlos, clausurar ramales, cerrar talleres, etc. El contubernio entre los distintos gobiernos y los gremios y empresas de transporte automotor (camiones y micros) fueron el motivo principal de la destrucción del sistema ferroviario. Los ferrocarriles daban vida a localidades y pueblos del interior, que con el cierre de ramales fueron condenados a la muerte. El ferrocarril llegaba donde otros medios no llegaban y además, su bajo costo permitía movilizarse a trabajadores de distintas regiones con cierta facilidad. Todo eso se acabó con el abandono de los servicios. La famosa frase de Menem: "ramal que para, ramal que cierra" fue la excusa ideal para la aniquilación del sistema ferroviario argentino, ya que las medidas de fuerza de los gremios ferroviarios eran inevitables, ante la evidente intención de desfinanciar el sistema y llevarlo a su inevitable final. Sólo se mantuvieron en funcionamientos unas pocas líneas de larga distancia y trenes de la zona metropolitana que aún eran rentables, pero en manos privadas. Hoy también existen algunas líneas privatizadas que transportan carga desde los principales centros de producción agrícola hacia los puertos de Rosario, Buenos Aires y Bahía Blanca, pero comparado con la red original es mínima.