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Pages in category "Steam locomotives of Brazil" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
Steam locomotives of Brazil (6 P) B. Broad gauge locomotives in Brazil (19 P) D. Diesel–electric locomotives of Brazil (31 P) E. Electric locomotives of Brazil (2 P) S.
Coronel Church, or Madeira-Mamoré No. 12, is a historic 4-4-0 steam locomotive of the Madeira-Mamoré Railroad, said to be the first locomotive in the Amazon. It is currently on static display in Porto Velho, Brazil. Named after Madeira-Mamoré engineer George Earl Church, the locomotive helped inaugurate the first part of the line on July 4 ...
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Brazil has one of the first steam-powered street railways and had the world's first steam locomotive designed specifically to work on the street. It had one of the world's first electric trams, Rio de Janeiro had electric streetcars before London, Paris, Rome, Madrid, Lisbon and any other city in Latin America.
In all 58 locomotives were built for the railway. Baldwin built all but five, with three being built by American Locomotive Company (ALCo), and two in the railway's own workshops. These included the last locomotive acquired by the railway, a 2-8-0 constructed in 1920. Records indicate this locomotive was built for about half the cost of an ...
In South America, the Central Railway of Brazil ordered 17 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) metre gauge 2-10-4 locomotives, 10 from Baldwin, which were delivered in 1940, and another seven from the American Locomotive Company, which were delivered in 1947.
Initially hauled by steam locomotives, the line was electrified in 1910, a first in Brazil. It was re-equipped in 1980 [1] with trains built by Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works (SLM) of Winterthur, Switzerland, and these were in turn replaced in 2019 [2] by vehicles from SLM's successor company Stadler Rail.