The regular train has just left Esquel, and is headed north to El Maiten and eventually the Ing. Jacobacci connection with the broad gauge to Buenos Aires.
The narrow gauge line to Esquel, Argentina, variously known as La Trochita, The Old Patagonian Express, or just the Esquel line, linked the remote villages of southern Patagonia with the outside world. It is amazing that the line still exists.