Ecuador: The infamous train from Guayaquil to Salinas now only a memory

eluniverso.com/(machine translated) Back in 1940, on the streets of Lizardo García y Vélez, near the Vicente Rocafuerte school, the first railroad station operated, the tracks of which linked Guayaquil with Salinas and the whistles like that of locomotive No. 8, woke residents of that neighborhood. When the wooden bridge on the Salado estuary deteriorated, which rose parallel to the Cinco de Junio, which linked the banks of the legendary sea-arm west of the city, the terminal moved to the other side where the citadel Railway.

The route to the coast began in what today remains of the hill of San Pedro. It continued by the zones bordering San Eduardo and the contemporary urbanization Puerto Azul; In addition, passed by the ‘lagartera’, place that took this name by the many reptiles that were there sun, interrupted the way and only moved when hearing the noise of the locomotive. The landscape at that time was quite different from the present: there were plenty of marshes, mangrove swamps, fruit trees typical of the area and it was common to observe the deer and the tiger.

 

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The trail crossed the area of ​​Chongón and its hills to reach the station of Progreso. He then went through the towns of Engunga and Villingota, passed through the stations of Kilometer 80 and Zapotal, crossed the Sugar Bridge, from where he saw the ‘hill of the dead’, named for its peculiar shape. Further ahead was San Vicente, Santa Elena, La Libertad (crossing by Cautivo) until at 18:00 we arrived at Salinas station, located in the final part of the present Bazán neighborhood.

The machine and its wagons drove vegetables, animals, encomiendas, mail and a few parishioners, as most of the passengers went by bus (similar to a bus).

By the decade of the fifties this means of transport lost its validity and was replaced definitively by the asphalt belt. Read Article

 

 
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