Notebook | Vestiges of the Tourist Train that Travelled the Tracks of Longino

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Ownership

In a Ferronor warehouse in Pozo Almonte, two passenger cars remain that, more than a decade ago, were part of a tourism project called Transatacama, an initiative that offered tours along the old tracks of the "Longino" railway. This tourist train consisted of a diesel locomotive—no longer in the region—a Belgian-made passenger car built in 1930, and a passenger car manufactured in Chile in the 1960s, with a capacity for 30 people. The tour cost…