Richard Fontaine Maury (

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, 18 December 1882 – Córdoba, 10 July 1950) was an American railway engineer and naturalized Argentine. He became known for the project of the Argentine "Ramal C-14" of the Ferrocarril General Manuel Belgrano and the touristic ''

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Early life

Richard Maury was born in Philadelphia in 1882, as the second of four brothers. He was the son of Thompson Brooke Maury. He graduated from

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as an engineer in 1902. His first work was on the Pennsylvania Tunnel

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Career

In 1906 he arrived in Argentina to join in 1907 the '' Argentine State Railway'', the national railway company of the country. In 1921, the "Ramal C-14" Salta-Socompa, a project to build a rail line to the

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an border was approved. Maury was appointed the head of the project. He worked there until 1931. On July 12, 1928, he was appointed honorary professor at the

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, where he also published, in 1929, he published ''Manual para el trazado de ferrocarriles'' (i.e. "Manual for the railway tracks").''Manual para el trazado de ferrocarriles''
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He was declared the first honorary member of the Engineering Center of Tucumán in 1944. Maury worked on the Transandine Railway from Mendoza to Las Cuevas, Argentina, on the road from Acheral to Tafi del Valle, and the railway line Yacuíba- Santa Cruz-

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Personal life

He married Carmen Rosa Pauna with whom he had one child, Ricardo Juan. Richard Maury died in Córdoba in 1950 and, since 1957, his remains are buried at the foot of a monument dedicated to him in the station of

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, a town near

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in the Salta–Antofagasta railway. A little village and its station, part of this line and originally named "Damián M. Torino", were renamed "Ingeniero Maury" (Engineer Maury) after him.Ingeniero Maury page
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Literature

*Richard F. Maury: "''Manual para el trazado de ferrocarriles''".

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of Tucumán, 1929 - 312 pages

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