Friends of the Sierra de la Ventana
 

Narrow Gauge Railway Association

 

Camino de la Trochita 381
8168 - Sierra de la Ventana
Buenos Aires - Argentina

 

Tel/Fax: 00 54 291 4915592
E-mail: rmatus@myalogistic.com

 

Having visited a whole lot of places in the country, and having contacted folk from Ushuaia (Tierra del Fuego) to Scotland, this group of friends have, if nothing else, defined a common feeling.

 

Not with folded arms, things Argentine change only because we make them change, nobody will do it for us.

  

We declare ourselves to be followers of the thinking of the engineer Livio Dante Porta. [You will recall that the Argentine mechanical engineer L D Porta was the world’s last great proponent of steam traction.]

 

Dear visitor, The golden dream of this group of people is to see the narrow gauge SV run again, perhaps not on its original alignment, as what was Sauce Grande station is now built over, nor with all the features of the original, nor even less in the near future. Our feet are firmly on the ground, just now we are dedicated to historical research, to the preservation through municipal ordinances (which has already been granted) and to achieve a level of protection by provincial and national authorities.

 

In this first stage we want to secure the land so that all may pass over it to create a thematic and tourist trail. There are proceedings delayed by ONABE. [The government body in which redundant state assets are vested.]

 

We can count on a group of interdisciplinary professionals who are working in their own fields. We are defining and recording our project and analysis its viability. One may ask how we are being financed. Each one of us contributes his best efforts, nothing more.

 

We have consulted many people knowledgeable in these matters, but their brain-cells are burnt-out by the reality. They are tired. They are losing hope. There are other folks who are helping us and look on us as Martians. There are others that leave the hall of some university, roll up their sleeves and come with their shovels to work at weekends. It’s not a matter of money. It is a dream. It gives whomsoever the opportunity to help us and to help themselves not to loose hope. The study in our house is where the quantity of material we have collected is stored. But we have taken account that all those papers help people feel a part of it. Evidently, our country needs social workers, people need to be enthused, they need something to follow ahead.

 

Be part of our group, send us your data and associate to our cause...

 

All the translations to the English language have been our friend's gracefulness in Scotland, Mr. David Sinclair