Occupation Engineer Spouse(s) Carmen Rosa Pauna Name Richard Maury | Years active 1902-1950 Children Ricardo Juan Maury | |
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Full Name Richard Fontaine Maury Born December 18, 1882 ( 1882-12-18 ) Philadelphia, United States Parent(s) Thompson Brooke Maury (father) Died July 10, 1950, Cordoba, Argentina | ||
Richard Fontaine Maury (Philadelphia, 18 December 1882 - Cordoba, 10 July 1950) was an American railway engineer naturalized Argentine, famous for the project of the Argentine "Ramal C-14" of the Ferrocarril General Manuel Belgrano, better known for the touristic Tren a las Nubes.
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Son of Thompson Brooke Maury, Richard Maury was born in Philadelphia in 1882, as the second of four brothers. He graduated as engineer in 1902 and his first work was on the Pennsylvania Tunnel New York City-New Jersey. In 1906 he arrived in Argentina to enter, one year later, in the Argentine State Railway, the national railway company of the country.
He married Carmen Rosa Pauna and had one child, Ricardo Juan.
In 1921 was dediced to build the "Ramal C-14" Salta-Socompa, to Chilean borders and, by an executive decree Maury, considered an expert in the choice of mountainous paths for railways and roads, was appointed head of the works, where he worked until 1931. On July 12, 1928 he was appointed honorary professor at the National University of Tucuman, where he also published, in 1929, his Manual para el trazado de ferrocarriles (i.e. "Manual for the railway tracks"). In 1944 he was declared the first honorary member of the Engineering Center of Tucuman.
Maury is also known for his work on the Transandine Railway from Mendoza to Las Cuevas, on the road from Acheral to Tafi del Valle, and for the railway line Yacuiba-Santa Cruz-Sucre, in Bolivia.
Richard Maury died in Cordoba in 1950 and, since 1957, his remains are buried at the foot of a monument dedicated to him in the station of Campo Quijano, a town near Salta on the Salta–Antofagasta railway. A little village and its station, part of this line and originally named "Damian M. Torino", were renamed "Ingeniero Maury" (Engineer Maury) after him.