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Brazilian Steam Album III Out Beyond the City North & West of Sao Paulo Soft Cov
Brazilian Steam Album Album III Out Beyond the City North & West of Sao Paulo by Carlheinz Hahmann & CS Small
Soft Cover
70 pages
Copyright 1990
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION III4
7. OUT FROM SAO PAULO
E.F. Sorocabana5
8. NORTH OF SAO PAULO
Cia. Paulista de Estrada de Ferro17
Cia. Mogiana de Estrada de Ferro34
9. THE INDUSTRIAL LOCOMOTIVES47
MAP
Sao Paulo State Area68
INTRODUCTION
The City of Sao Paulo is the center of gravity for five rail lines. At the middle is the E. F. Santos - Jundiai. This line and the E. F. Central of Brazil have been described in Volume II. At Jundiai the EFSJ meets the Cia. Paulista de Estrada de Ferro which goes off on the broad gauge to Campinas. There the Cia. Mogiana, which is narrow gauge, goes north with a set of sprawling branches. The fifth line is the E. F. Sorocabana whose main line leaves the city heading west. The Sorocabana, Paulista, and Mogiana are the subjects of this volume.
With 12,000,000 inhabitants, including the near suburbs, the City of Sao Paulo is the largest Brazilian city. It is the financial, business, and industrial capitol of the country. This pre-eminence has not been without its price. The streets, forced by the terrain to negotiate hills and valleys, are clogged with traffic. Coming to the city by air the cloud of smog which covers the area is apparent.
The State of SPaulo occupies 88,200 square miles. This is only 2.9% of the total area of Brazil. At the close of the steam age one third of this area contain the majority of the state's railroad trackage.
The dense development of the area mentioned above was brought about by the intensive development of agriculture in the area. Coffee was the principal crop. It seems that the railroads hunted down every coffee bean with branch and feeder lines. During the 1920s the coffee farming industry started to move again, this time to Parana'. This left many of the branch and feeder lines with no traffic.
At the close of World War II it was apparent that the day of the privately owned railroad was over. In the face of a persistent government policy to hold rail rates below the cost of service which left no funds for replacements, renewals and improvements, there was no way to attach private capital. In other jurisdictions where the lines were already owned by the federal government, the lines were combined into a federal corporation. In the State of Sao Paulo had come to the rescue of ailing railroads early in their existence by assuming ownership, the lines were combined into a state corporation, Ferrovia Paulista S.A.. Branch and feeder lines were abandoned. None of the mainlines were scrapped.
The lines now remaining are in no worse condition than those of other countries where there has been an intensive road building program and where there is no legislation to prevent the motor bus and truck from competing with the railroad.
The next and last volume of BRAZILIAN STEAM ALBUM will visit the tropical North and the temperate South. It also includes a personally conducted trip by Brazil's only international train which once ran from Sao Paulo to the southern border with Uruguay.
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