SOUTH AMERICAN RAILWAYS IN THE 1960s
By Henry Finch
THE author has compiled a superb set of images from his travels in South America in the 1960s, mainly looking for steam but fortunately not ignoring the more modern (but now largely vanished) early diesel and electric locos.
The book starts, alphabetically, in Argentina, with two early English Electric diesels appearing in the first images, although steam from multiple British and international builders predominates the next pages, divided into five chapters. Bolivia and Brazil feature in the next five chapters, with one depicting the amazing funicular operation of the broad-gauge line to the port of Santos,