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Parque Museo Ferroviario[View Images]

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Avd Portales.
Santiago, Chile

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Por iniciativa de la Ilustre Municipalidad de Santiago, acogida con entusiasmo por la Empresa de los Ferrocarriles del Estado, se dio vida a un convenio suscrito el 14 de diciembre de 1980, tendiente a crear en la ciudad de Santiago, un museo ferroviario. La empresa ferroviaria cedió en comodato a la corporación municipal un conjunto de piezas históricas, representativas de la época del vapor, las que fueron restauradas e instaladas en dos hectáreas, al interior del Parque de la Quinta Normal de Agricultura. El 19 de diciembre de 1984 el museo es inaugurado y desde entonces es administrado por la Corporación Privada para la Divulgación de la Ciencia y Tecnología, convirtiéndose desde sus inicios en una de las colecciones ferroviarias a vapor más importantes de Sudamérica.

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On the initiative of the Municipality of Santiago, enthusiastically received by the Company of the Railroads of the State, he gave life to an agreement signed on December 14, 1980, to create in the city of Santiago, a railway museum. The railway company gave in to the municipal corporation comodato a set of historical items representing the era of steam, which were restored and installed in two hectares inside the park of Quinta Normal de Agricultura. On December 19, 1984 the museum since it opened and is administered by the Corporation for Private Popularization of Science and Technology, since its inception in becoming one of the collections more steam railway in South America.
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