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Built in the heart of the Andes mountain range, the Transandine Railway between the cities of Los Andes and Mendoza (ARG) was inaugurated on April 5, 1910.
The Transandine Railway was a 1,000 mm metre gauge combined rack and adhesion railway which operated from Mendoza in Argentina, across the Andes mountain range via the Uspallata Pass, to Santa Rosa de Los Andes in Chile, a distance of 248 km. It was a part of the first rail route linking the southern Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.