Parque Museo Ferroviario

On the initiative of the Illustrious Municipality of Santiago, welcomed with enthusiasm by the Company of State Railways, an agreement was signed on December 14, 1980, tending to create in the city of Santiago, a Railway Museum.

The Railway Company gave in loan to the Municipal Corporation a set of historical pieces, representative of the steam age, which were restored and installed in two hectares of park, to the interior of the Quinta Normal de Agricultura Park.

On December 19, 1984, this important work is handed over to the community, becoming from its beginnings one of the most important steam railway collections in South America.

Our Institution is managed by the Private Corporation for the Dissemination of Science and Technology.

The pieces that are exhibited were carefully selected for their historical value or for their technical characteristics. The sixteen locomotives in the sample are of different types. Some were chosen for their age, such as the Rogers locomotive, type 22, whose manufacture dates from 1893 in the United States; others for having been manufactured in the country, such as type 20, built in the former Maestranza and Galvanizaciones Society of Caleta Abarca, fifth region. Characterized by its green and black colors, exposed on the turntable, the Kitson Meyer locomotive, No. 3349, was part of the tractor team that started the service in the Transandino Railroad of Chile, from the Andes to Las Cuevas on the border with Argentina, in 1910.

The largest series consists of locomotives type 80, 100, 110, the latter with a total weight of 220 tons, making it one of the heaviest in the southern cone.

Among the passenger cars owned by the Museum, stands out the Presidential Car, intended for the transfer of the Presidents of the Republic at the beginning of the 20th century. Complement this collection, two 1st Class Cars manufactured in Germany by Linke Hofmann in 1923, among others.