Old Patagonian Express keeps chugging along
Rickety steam train fits the rugged land of Patagonian Argentina.
ESQUEL, Argentina — As the huffing, creaking, smoke-blowing mass of iron lumbers out of its corrugated metal shed, the clicking of cameras begins.
The Old Patagonian Express, immortalized in Paul Theroux’s 1979 book, rumbles to life as it has since its first trip in 1922.
Its passengers line the narrow-gauge tracks, cameras at the ready, wearing furry hats to ward...
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