Managed by seven young afficionates to the railway, that thought that somebody should manage the preservation that the State had left alone, in 1972 births the Railway-club of Argentina.
Beyer Peacock Locomotive 4116 2-8-0 constructed in 1914.
Witches of the acelerated radiation of the railway materia and aware of the loose of the best of the antique railway tradition in Argentina, they link forces with the National Railway Museum and with (the now non-existing) Railway form Argentina and they build this association "for the restauration of the historic railway material" without receiving any type of official subsidies, anly with the voluntay effort of their associated.
Locomotive Nielson 11 2-6-0 constructed in 1888.
Nowadays, this activity of preservation of the historic patrimony of Argentina arises unities with a gauge (1.435 mm) in his center of the station Coronel Lynch, and of gauge wide (1.676 mm) in the Talleres Remedios of Escalada, both near Buenos Aires, previewing in the future the incorporation of material of metre gauge. Between both steam locomotive preserved stands up:
Futhermore, it can be mentioned that the electric diesel Baldwin (1953) and Alsthom (1957) in 1.676 mm and G.e.u-13 en 1.435 mm, adding to the cars of passangers and vehicles of different type in both gauge.
This is so, the Railway-Club of Argentina organizes a historic railway drive, with historic and touristic character, between Federico Lacroze and Fatima (60 km). It is a train directed by a steam locomotive and obigated walk of the strangers afficitonate that visite Buenos Aires.
