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Good Morning! It´s steaming outside! We must have had some heavy rainfall during the night! Brunhilda - it´s Sunday, so I´ll go for my usual big Sunday breakfast which includes all the food my doctor said not to eat. If I have to die I don´t want to die hungry! Ulrich´s Train Movie Theater features <h4 style="text-align:center;">La Trochita</h4> today! La Trochita (official name: Viejo Expreso Patagónico), in English known as the Old Patagonian Express, is a 750 mm (2 ft 5 1&frasl;2 in) narrow gauge railway in Patagonia, Argentina using steam locomotives. The nickname La Trochita means literally "little gauge" though it is sometimes translated as "The Little Narrow Gauge" in Spanish while "trocha estrecha" is often used for a generic description of "narrow gauge." The Trochita railway is 402 km in length and runs through the foothills of the Andes between Esquel and El Maitén in Chubut Province and Ingeniero Jacobacci in Río Negro Province, originally it was part of Ferrocarriles Patagónicos, a network of railways in southern Argentina. Nowadays, with its original character largely unchanged, it operates as a heritage railway and was made internationally famous by the 1978 Paul Theroux book The Old Patagonian Express, which described it as the railway almost at the end of the world. Theroux had sought to ride trains as far as possible into southern Argentina but did not include in his adventures the several railroads which were further south than Esquel, presumably because they were not considered operational or with sufficient connection to larger lines. I know that those expecting a dramatic Italian opera are now disappointed, but just a little! <iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/WLj6t_p3zvQ" width="425" height="350"></iframe> And in this feature, engine driver Carlos Jose Aqüero explains his job! <iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/QWv4Qu8T06c" width="425" height="350"></iframe> La Trochita has been brought to you by the "Friends of the Italian Opera" <img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VKnlNvwbGMM/TNwd8YfLDMI/AAAAAAAACiU/KEWIsRL_SEE/s400/Gangsters.gif" alt=" " /> Enjoy!
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