End of the World Train in Ushuaia

Overview

We take you to see the Austral Fueguino Railway (End of the World Train). 7 kilometers of tracks is the total route of the legend that did not let itself die “The train of the prisoners”. Originally the route started from the prison in the center of the city of Ushuaia. The only prisoners authorized to leave the prison were those awarded for their good behavior to perform forced labor, to go look for firewood to heat the prison and the incipient city of Ushuaia that grew next to it. Originally it was transported with shackles on its legs and back to back in precarious freight wagons. At present the departure is from the “End of the World” station, through a replica of the “Trencito de los Presos”. Visitors follow the same path that the convicts used decades ago to supply the town with firewood. Currently the wagons are heated, modern and glazed so as not to lose the best panoramic view of the journey. The train restarted its activities in 1994 for purely tourist purposes. Forests hundreds of years old, rivers, peat bogs, and the reconstruction of an indigenous settlement parade before the sight of the passenger during the trip on the End of the World Train. The tour also makes a stop at the Macarena waterfall; and in its last 3 kilometers you enter the National Park. The train is an additional activity of the visit to Tierra del Fuego National Park. At the end, the passengers rejoin the tour with their respective vehicles and guides, touring the entire park to later return to Ushuaia.