07.01.2015 – 08.01.2015
Chilecito, Argentina.
The Cable Car runs through the town up to La Mejicana mines in the mountains. As such, there seems to be nothing extraordinary - as in the mountains there are often cable cars, but if you look at some of the numbers, it's getting quite interesting.
The start place is here in the town of Chilecito, but the final stop is situated 35 kilometers away at the altitude of 4400 meters, and totally there are 262 towers (not making a mistake - really two hundred and sixty-two towers), some of them up to 55 meters in height.
Here is the first stop, or Enstancia No.1.
In the foreground there is a large wooden crane of that size that it was difficult to fit the image in the picture. In the background there is the main object - a steel construction of the height of a four - story house. The so-called railway station.
The ordinary railway is beside.
Finally I succeeded in having the whole crane in the picture.
Vagonets - most of them in perfectly good condition.
And another dozen or so.
And those - unsuitable for use.
The logo says - made in Leipzig,
Some parts of the construction are made of wood.
A very decent spiral staircase, but no chance to go upstairs as the beginning of the stairs is firmly locked .
One panorama image too.
And above there are more vagonets.
The sign indicates towards the museum.
At the time of the first visit there was lunch time at the museum, but no problem of coming back later. And the museum was a surprise, and in a positive sense,
Four rooms are filled with former technology.
and with ordinary and more complex tools and techniques.
The scales and a weights box.
Different oilers
Health records book.
The teapot holds at least 5 liters, if not more.
Some literature.
Phone and on the bottom shelf there are batteries.
The forefather of the telephone "telefono portation".
Classical typewriters.
Another one
Wall Phone.
Funicular poster.
The information is below.
Another former plan, this time an authentic 'blueprint'
And one more
The book on the table afforded more information.
On the whole – an interesting place. And it was good that the informative museum was just next to it.
The former railway station. From narrow gauge into broad tracked.
Out of the town in the mountains these kind ”intermediate stations" caught the eye.
Blooming cacti next to the road…
Continued...
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