The Woodburners of Paraguay - English • Great Railways

In 1991 producer NICK LERA headed down to South America to film the world's last wood-burning state railway, in Paraguay on the northern Argentine border. British built and still using original locomotives made in Glasgow in 1910, it was the world's slowest main line. The weekly overnight mail to the capital Asuncion made the line's fastest run with an average speed of 20km per hour. Track maintenance was performed by the cattle of the pampa munching calmly at the grass covered track with plenty of time to move aside for the approaching 'express'. The southern end of the line where Lera filmed the steam veterans whistling through Encarnacion's busy streets has now vanished beneath the rising waters of a massive barrage project on the Parana River, leaving this film as a precious record of a fascinating and little known railway now gone for good.

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