The Rainforest Ecological Train or Waterfalls Train (Tren Ecológico de la Selva or Tren de las Cataratas) is an environmentally-friendly train that runs through the forest inside Iguazú National Park in the north of the province of Misiones of Argentina.
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The train can transport between 120 and 150 passengers over seven kilometres (nearly five miles) of track from the Visitors’ Centre up to the Cataratas (Waterfalls) Station and the Garganta del Diablo (Devil's Gorge) Station. It transports aproximtelly 900,000 visitors yearly.
The little train was built in England by the workshops of the Alan Keef Ltd company, in Ross-on-Wye, 200 kilometers to the west of London. It is painted all green and it consists of a propane locomotive pulling four opened roofed wagons with wooden seats at the sides so that the passengers have direct contact with the forest. Its track gauge is 600 mm (1 ft 11 5⁄8 in).
The laying of tracks borders along the Iguazu River and runs at speeds of no more than 20 kilometres per hour (12 mph) and stops when animals cross the railway lines, the journey takes about 20 minutes, with a "stop" at the Cataratas (Waterfalls) Station and then to the terminus Garganta del Diablo (Devil's Gorge) Station. Here you can go down and access the foot bridge, which goes to the balcony built on the edge of the huge waterfall 90 metres high called Garganta del Diablo.