Railway locomotives used firewood as fuel, running at a maximum speed of 20 km/h, therefore a trip between Corrientes and Mburucuyá 178 kilometres (111 mi) in length took nearly 26 hours.

Italian entrepreneur Francisco Bolla, owner of sugar cane mill "Ingenio Primer Correntino" had requested for a railway line to transport both, goods and passengers.

On December 18, 1890, the Provincial Legislature promulgated a Law granted Bolla a concession to build and operate a railway line.

Nevertheless, the Provincial Government realised that the company had extended the line from San Luis to the Arroyo Riachuelito and was constructing another branch to the city of Corrientes without permission.

In 1909 works began to extend the line to Nuestra Señora del Rosario de Caá Catí, where General Paz station was built.

[7] Other similar machines are exhibited at Concordia and Paraná stations, as well as in the Scalabrini Ortiz Railway Museum of Retiro, Buenos Aires.

In 2009, there were some attempts to reactivate the railway, running trains from Santa Ana de los Guácaras and the Primer Correntino mill,[9] although it was never carried out.