Collective memory around railroad heritage: steam energy as an activation and identity engine

Abstract

The Railway Heritage is understood in the present work as a typology belonging to the Industrial Heritage. It represents a cultural field and space for collective memory in different towns and cities, valued for being a product of worker intelligence and a generator of communication and socio-productive exchange. In this sense, steam energy constitutes a revolutionary and significant technical factor in an irreversible historical future. So much energy source that provides movement
The chaining of pieces of large machinery acquires a revolutionary value that gives historical and social value to the railway bien inherited from the 19th century and the beginnings of the 20th century. It is sustained as soon as it approaches the valuation and reproduction of the intangible practice of energy dicha generation in the actuality, constituting a key factor to understand the relationship between the railroad community and the movable and immovable material bienes acquired today in Cultural Heritage, through its cultural activation, in its dimension of preservation, conservation and interpretation. It starts with the results of a case study carried out in the railway building in the Localidad Bonaerense de Remedios de Climbing, belonging to the Ferroclub Argentino, sector operating as a Ferroviary Preservation Center, through interviews with key informants representative within the members association dicha assets.