The train -with 10 fully renovated wagons, which carry 500 passengers- leaves from General Belgrano Station in the\u00a0city of Salta, going through the Valle de la Lerma and the Quebrada del Toro, to later arrive in the viaduct La Polvorilla, in the thresholds of the magnificent Puna.<\/p>\n \u00a0The\u00a0Tren de las Nubes<\/em>\u00a0(Train to the Clouds) is a referent in the tourist iconography of the Northwest of Argentina, highly The\u00a0tour lasts around 15 hours,\u00a0<\/strong>passing through a total of 21 tunnels, 29 bridges, 13 viaducts, 9 sheds, and 2 loops. At an average speed of 35 km\/h (21 mph), the train runs on the railway lines of the legendary branch line C14, which reaches the port of Antofagasta, Chile.<\/p>\n The\u00a0ten wagons have\u00a0<\/strong>two bilingual tour guides on each of them, and other services like a\u00a0dining car, a bar, and an infirmary.<\/strong><\/p>\n Along its\u00a0217 km (135 mi) route,\u00a0<\/strong>the Train to the Clouds has enabled the\u00a0reactivation of the shy economies of the towns it runs through,\u00a0<\/strong>which have taken advantage of the tourist resource and set up sale stands of craftworks, clothes, and varied regional products.<\/p>\n Contact the\u00a0official site<\/a>\u00a0for information on\u00a0days and times.<\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Train to the Clouds is the most amazing tourist train in the world. Live the experience of reaching 12,000 feet above sea level aboard this marvel of engineering. The train -with 10 fully renovated wagons, which carry 500 passengers- leaves from General Belgrano Station in the\u00a0city of Salta, going through the Valle de la Lerma… Read on<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[26],"class_list":{"0":"post-2776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-noa","8":"tag-excursiones"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2776"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15870,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776\/revisions\/15870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/images\/salta_tren_delasnubes4.jpg\" "\\"The")
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<\/strong>The\u00a0train<\/strong>\u00a0is the\u00a0fourth highest in the world<\/strong>, after those in China, Peru and Bolivia, reaching\u00a04200 meters (13,780 ft) in its highest point,\u00a0<\/strong>at the end of the railway line. Despite this fact, the Train to the Clouds\u2019 typical characteristic is that it\u00a0does<\/strong>\u00a0not run using the rack system<\/strong>. This\u00a0engineering feat<\/strong>, a work by the North-American engineer Richard Fontaine Maury (at the request of the then President Hip\u00f3lito Yrigoyen), established the principle of wheel-to-road (not cogwheel) adherence to the railway lines, articulated in a\u00a0spiraling and zigzag ascending logic<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/images\/salta_tren_delasnubes3.jpg\" "\\"The")
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