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  2. Rail transport in Brazil - Wikipedia

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    The first locomotive of the Recife and São Francisco Railway Company, the second oldest Brazilian railway. Some time before the enacting of Law 641, the banker Irineu Evangelista de Souza requested permission to build a railway connecting the Port of Mauá, in the Bay of Guanabara, to Raiz da Serra. This railway became effectively the first ...

  3. List of Latin American rail transit systems by ridership

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    The following is a list of all urban rail transit systems in Latin America, ranked by passenger ridership. These kinds of systems are most commonly known as metro (or subway in English), but may also be known as subte, tren, or tranvía systems. Daily and annual passengers ridership figures in this chart are based on annual and daily (not just ...

  4. Carajás Railway - Wikipedia

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    It is one of the largest passenger railways in operation in Brazil, with five stations and ten stops, covering São Luís, Santa Inês, Açailândia, Marabá and Parauapebas. However, the EF-315 is specialized in transporting mineral cargo, extracted from the Serra dos Carajás mines , and taken to the ports of São Marcos Bay in Maranhão for ...

  5. Transport in Brazil - Wikipedia

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    Norte Brasil Railway Map of Brazilian rail network, 2016. The Brazilian railway network has an extension of about 30,000 km (18,641 mi). It is basically used for transporting ores. [5] Usually, the railway sector was treated in a secondary way in Brazil, due to logistical, economic or political difficulties to install more railways. The ...

  6. Category:Passenger rail transport in Brazil - Wikipedia

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    High-speed rail in Brazil (1 C, 1 P) R. Railway stations in Brazil (12 C, 5 P) Rapid transit in Brazil (6 C, 11 P) T. ... Pages in category "Passenger rail transport ...

  7. Category:Rail transport in Brazil - Wikipedia

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    Passenger rail transport in Brazil (4 C, 1 P) R. ... Pages in category "Rail transport in Brazil" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.

  8. São Paulo Metropolitan Trains - Wikipedia

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    In 1946, Estrada de Ferro Santos-Jundiaí, administered by the federal government, assumed the operation of the railway, which is the current lines 7-Ruby and 10-Turquoise. In the 1870s, the Companhia São Paulo e Rio de Janeiro build the Estrada de Ferro do Norte, a railway that connected São Paulo to cities of the Paraíba Valley.

  9. Rio de Janeiro Metro - Wikipedia

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    The cars are of monoblock construction in stainless steel. Passenger train composition normally use six cars (four on rare occasions), but Line 2 was planned to use eight cars. Older stock driving cars can accommodate a maximum of 351 passengers (40 seated), while non-driving cars accommodate a maximum of 378 passengers (48 seated).