No, the viral video of the train traveling on a mountain was not filmed in Argentina but in the United States.

Circulation through publications with social networks
video of a train with several wagons crossing a mountain with the badertion that it is an Argentine railway "coming down from Salta to the port of Santa Fe ". However,
Reverso was able to verify that this is false: although the text of the viral content refers to a feat of the national government, the video that accompanies it was not shot in Argentina but in California, the United States. United.

Audiovisual content was shared by at least 13 users on Facebook, whose publications included more than 8,000 shared reproductions and more than 162,000 reproductions together, according to a survey conducted in this manner. Misinformation has also circulated on Twitter, where it has been retweeted nearly 4,000 times.

The real story behind the images

After performing a reverse image search to know the origin of the video,
Reverso he was able to verify that the train that can be observed actually circulates through California, in the United States, and not between the provinces of Salta and Santa Fe, as indicated by the viral posts.

Railway construction shown in the images, in which the railway crosses a tunnel and then surrounds a hill, is known as the "Tehachapi loop" and belongs to part of the Union Pacific network. Railway.

This stretch of trails in California was built between 1874 and 1876 and is still used. In the square is a plaque with the history of the loop of Tehachapi in which it is read that the construction is "one of the seven wonders of the world of railways" and that it was considered a point of Historic Civil Engineering Landmark in North America by the American Civil Engineers Corporation.

Some of the publications were shared with the following text: "It's the train that goes down from Salta to the port of Santa Fe. After many years, that equates to 150 trucks, it takes 3 days, it carries 100 cars, it is 'call the beast and it carries 6000 tonnes of grain, before it had only 30 cars and it took 10 days, all this progress was made by the Minister Dietrich. "This is related to a real fact, although the viral images do not match.

According to the Ministry of Transportation of the Nation in a statement, the Belgrano Cargas train made a test trip last May and transported 100 loaded cars from Joaquín V. González, in Salta, Timbúes, Santa Fe.

The train arrived in 3 days and traveled 1,180 kilometers along the grain branch that runs through these provinces,
according to information provided by the portfolio led by Minister Guillermo Dietrich. Last October, two more tests of this type were carried out and it is expected that, from next September, these trains will be able to carry 6,000 net tons, against 3,800 currently, according to the official announcement.

This is not the first time the video of the Tehachapi loop is mistakenly linked to a train from another part of the world. There are publications that place it in China and Germany, and others that say it was shot in India.

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By Victoria Leiva

Edition: Matías Di Santi, Laura Zommer and Elodie