User:Michigan Historian 11/Central Argentine Railway

= Article Draft = (I plan on adding new sections and citations to improve the article.)

Origins
(Comment about spelling in article--The name "Allan" in "Allan Campbell" should be spelled "Allan," not "Alan.")

Campbell had been the engineer in the New York-Harlem railway line and been hired by William Wheelwright to make a study for the Copiapó–Caldera line project in Chile.[3]

Construction
In 1863, the government of Argentina granted the company, led by engineer William Wheelwright, a concession to build and operate a railway line between the cities of Rosario (a major port in southern Santa Fe, on the Paraná River) and Córdoba (a large city near the geographical center of Argentina, and the capital of the province of the same name). The grant included a clause to populate the lands along and around the railway that were given to the company by the national state.[4]

In September 1867 the line reached Villa María, Córdoba, and the works ceased.[5]

Progress
In 1908, CAR was merged with another company, Buenos Aires and Rosario Railway, which served the Buenos Aires–Rosario line.[6] (The year should be changed to 1902, as the Lewis source reads "29 August 1902" on page 161.) In the table below the Progress section, the year corresponding to Buenos Aires & Rosario (BA & Rosario) reads 1902, so there appears to be an inconsistency between the text and the table (the text reads 1908; the table reads 1902; I think they should both be 1902).

In 1916, the Retiro-Tigre line was electrified, becoming the first electrified railway system of South America. New British Thomson-Houston (BTH) multiple units were acquired to run on the line.[page needed] (Multiple places in this section read "page needed." These will need to added in addition to the pages that I will add. I am not sure if I should be going back to the sources added by others when citing their information, since those sources may not be scholarly sources. However, citing from my sources in those places may not work since my sources may not contain the exact same information as others' sources.)

(This next section may belong in its own section; it is still a work in progress. It may be combined with a section on rate-making in the 1920s.) At the beginning of World War I, there was a patriotic fervor among the workers of the Argentine Central Railway because they were working for a British-owned company and supported the side of Great Britain in the war. However, as the war continued on, a variety of factors led to strikes against the Central Argentine Railway, including one that occurred in Rosario in September 1917.[7]