This railroad track serves the narrow gauge train farthest south in the world. The btanch line was inaugurated on 25th May 1951 for the coal mines in Río Turbio and it has coal combustion engines.
Rio Gallegos Station is a former railway station of the railway branch linking the
Río Turbio coal mine with the port of Punta Loyola, near
Río Gallegos, in the Güer Aike department of the
Province of Santa Cruz (Argentina). It was inaugurated in 1951 and today it is converted into a Feroviario museum. The station forms part of the Río Turbio Ferro-Industrial Branch, which links the Río Turbio mine in the Andes Mountains and near the border with Chile, with the port of Punta Loyola, near Rio Gallegos. It is a branch of narrow gauge (750 mm) belonging to YCF (Yacimientos Carboníferos Fiscales, current YCRT) and currently works only for the transport of coal.