The Maua Railway, formally the Imperial Petropolis Steam Navigation and Railway Company, began operating in 1854 as the first railway built in Brazil and the third in South America. Built to a 1,676 millimetre gauge, its roughly 18 kilometre line ran from the port of Maua on Guanabara Bay to the base of the Estrela mountain range near Petropolis in Rio de Janeiro state, carrying coffee and other cargo along with passengers between the coast and the mountainous interior. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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The Mauá Railway (Portuguese: Estrada de Ferro Mauá), officially known as the Imperial Petropolis Steam Navigation and Railway Company (Imperial Companhia de Navegação a Vapor e Estrada de Ferro de Petropolis), was the first railway established in Brazil and the third in South America.
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