Depietri Railways and Elevators
Depietri Railways and Elevators (Ferrocarriles y Elevadores Depietri in Spanish) was a railway company that built an economic line between the cities of San Pedro and Arrecifes in Buenos Aires Province. The company, established by Eduardo Depietri, also built the port of San Pedro. The railway (whose main activity was the transport of grains) run from 1936 until 1948, when the entire Argentine network was nationalised and the FCED expropriated by the government. History Uruguayan engineer and entrepreneur Eduardo Depietri (1893–1970) had conceived a metre gauge railway line that run through the Buenos Aires Province from west to east, connecting with other lines such as Córdoba Central and Central Argentine. Depietri came up with a project that received approval from the Government of the Province. The project was to build two economic railway networks, the first from Necochea to Olavarría (connecting with the Provincial Railway). The other one would connect the ports of San Pedro, San Nicolás and Obligado with Ramallo, Pergamino, Arrecifes, Salto and Ingeniero De Madrid. That network would also connect with Compañía General de BA and Midland railway lines. In case of being carried out, the project included access to all the ports of the province –with