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Practically from the beginnings of ARAR, the history of the development of the different railway companies in our city was object of permanent askings, so much among the integrating of the Institution as of all kinds of interested in the topic:  students, educational, investigating, journalists and public.  Before the lack of a previous work that summarized so wide matter, as of the first numbers of the ARAR Bulletin was presented a squeezed review exposing in successive presentations the information with which were counted in that moment, complemented by useful illustrative maps.
This work by several years was one of the sources of reference more appealed by the people;  however, while advanced the patient task of investigation and summary of the material originating from very various sources, was made evident the need of assaulting an agreed editorial project with the importance of the approached matter.
 
 
 

During 1998, Angel Ferrer and Carlos Alberto Fernández Priotti began the preparation of the first draft, and a careful documentation, statistics and graphics selection;  then it was faced the design and confection of the cartography as well as of related plans, all of which was taking shape progressively until the preparation around the end of following year, of a pilot issue that would permit to evaluate the alternatives to follow concerning the graphic and commercial presentation of the book.
Parallelly, it began a patient but untiring search of support to make possible the financing of the project, having account of the limited money resources that has our Association.
Finally, during the current year was reached the climactic point of this initiative, what permitted to finish the process of diagramming and graphic treatment of the work, what continued the stage of printing and binding, concluding with full success on past July.

The fruit of this task is to the sight:  a book in size of 20 x 28 centimeters, printed in 90 grams/sq.meter high-quality paper, with their sheets sewn to thread and bound with an attractive cardboard lid of 280 grams/sq.meter with plastic coating.  Inside, more than one hundred pages profusely illustrated with 117 engravings and photographs, 47 maps and drawings and 2 statistic tables that present an overview of the gravitation that came to have to Rosario the multiple railway companies that it had as a determinant point within their lines.  Complementing the purely local information, also is included an annex that presents a summary illustrated with the history of all the railways that had relationship to our city, from their origins until the present time.

The first issue of FERROCARRILES EN ROSARIO is a reality.  Already it has been begun its distribution in the principal bookstores of our city, while was fixed on September 5th 2001 as date for the formal presentation of the book, act that will be carried out in the Conferences Room located in the First Floor of Rosario Stock Exchange, Córdoba 1402 from 19:30 hours.
It´s a desire as of the authors as of the ARAR, to thank all the stimulant show of support that it has deserved this task, that for the first time permits to present in wide form, the passionate history of the Rail in our city, main railway hub of the interior of Argentina.