[1] The following table shows the length of the various lines of railway in Argentina, and the width of track, as they were at the close of 1909.
RAILWAY
GAUGE
MILES IN OPERATION
Buenos Aires and Pacific
broad
2,967
Great Southern
”
2,745
Central
”
2,528
Western
”
1,360
Entre Rios
standard
688
Northeastern
”
560
Buenos Aires Central
”
165
Central Cordoba
narrow
772
Cordoba and Rosario
”
180
Province of Santa FÉ
”
1,028
Northern
”
567
Central Northern
”
1,409
14,969
[2] The author desires to acknowledge his obligation for a number of historical facts to the South American Republics, by Hon. Thomas C. Dawson, and published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, of New York and London.
