Valle Hermoso (Beautiful Valley) is a small town
65 km northwest of Córdoba, Argentina,
which is 750 km northwest of Buenos Aires.
In the late 1990s a local resident,
Prof. Osvaldo Pedro Ferreiro,
built a tram car and a 600 mm gauge tram line
around the grounds of the former railroad station.
The car measures 1.05 m/3.4 ft wide by 5.3 m/17.4 ft long
and can carry 21 passengers at 7.2 kph / 4.5 mph.
It is numbered 652 in homage to ex-Porto tram 652
which runs on the heritage tramway in Buenos Aires.
The line is called "Paseo con Ciencia" (Ride with Science)
because it passes various scientific, botanical
and environmental landmarks of the city.
It was inaugurated on 6 March 1998
and has been open to the public year round ever since.

The photograph above was taken in 1999,
the one below in 2000 - both by Lucio Peñaloza of the
Asociación Amigos del Tranvía de Córdoba.

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