Monday, December 28, 2020

trains for Argentina that instead went to the Soviet Union


A Ganz "Catamarca" type set in Isidro Casanova on the Belgrano Sur line in 1958. They were the design basis of the "Rosario".

A "Rosario" type set in Riga, Latvia.

In the 1930s, Ferrocarriles del Estado made several purchases of motorised trainsets from the Hungarian firm of Ganz. The last batch ordered in 1939 did not reach Argentina due to the outbreak of WW2: following the Allied victory in 1945, the trains were handed over to the Soviet Union as war reparations.



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