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Most railways in Brazil are for freight transportation or urban passenger transportation. Only two inter-city passenger railways survive: the Carajás Railway (connecting Pará and Maranhão) and the Vitória-Minas Railway (connecting Espírito Santo and Minas Gerais), both operated by Vale S.A.
Overall, Brazil has the largest number of metros, with 12 such systems, followed by Venezuela with 4 metro systems. The Mexico City Metro has the highest passenger ridership from a single operator in Latin America, and second in the Americas, after the New York City Subway. São Paulo is the city with the largest number of passengers carried by ...
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.
Campinas is one of Brazil's largest regional centers, it is just 90 km north of São Paulo, and has its own Metropolitan area with over 3 million inhabitants, Jundiaí is a 400.000 inhabitants city in between them, and Americana is a 200.000 inhabitants city in the north limit of the Campinas Region. The journey from São Paulo to Jundiaí ...
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 ...
The government's goal is to have 40% of Brazil's freight, which is mostly iron ore, transported by rail, up from 17% today. Little of Brazil's growing grain output is carried by rail. ($1 = 4.9350 ...
Brazil aims to expand its freight-focused rail system to carry 40% of exports by 2035, up from 17% currently, he said. ... Brazil hopes to attract some 180 billion reais ($36.6 billion) of private ...
The São Paulo Metropolitan Train is a public transit rail system implanted in Greater São Paulo, serving 23 of its 39 municipalities.It has 273 km (170 mi) of length, 7 lines and 94 stations, transporting approximately 3 million passengers per day.