The steam engine
On a narrow line.
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The End of the World Train is a narrow-gauge steam railway, counted as the southernmost working railway in the world. Its story begins with Ushuaia's prison: the penal colony arrived in 1884, and in 1910 a narrow line opened to bring rock, sand and timber from the forest to the prison, known as the Prisoners' Train. After the prison closed in 1947 and the 1949 earthquake, the line shut in 1952, and it was later rebuilt as a tourist railway. The ride leaves from End of the World Station west of town and follows the Pipo River valley between mountains and the remains of the forest the prisoners felled a century ago, with tree stumps still dotting the valley; it stops at a small waterfall and ends at its station inside Tierra del Fuego National Park. The trip takes about an hour each way with commentary, and many combine it with a visit to the park. The park fee is separate from the train ticket, and booking ahead helps in summer.
On a narrow line.
And its old tree stumps.
Inside Tierra del Fuego park.
End of the World Station, about 8 km west of Ushuaia
No. The Tierra del Fuego National Park fee is paid separately, as the train ends inside the park.
