Corcovado Rack Railway Rio de Janeiro Brazil 3rd April 2014

            Our business meetings finished after lunch giving me some free time to take the Corcovado Rack Railway up to the top of Corcovado Hill and visit the Christ Redeemer statue that dominates the skyline above Rio. Being a grey cloudy day, midweek in early April, there were no crowds but of course the top (710m) was in the clouds so there were no stunning views of Rio and the ocean, just clouds.

This view is of two car electric multiple unit 4 at the lower terminal station at Cosme Velho.

The line is 3.8 km (2.4 mi) long. It is a 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) gauge rack railway using the Riggenbach rack system. The line was opened by Emperor Dom Pedro II on 9 October 1884. Initially steam hauled, the line was the first railway to be electrified in Brazil in 1910, and was re-equipped in 1980 with trains built by SLM of Winterthur in Switzerland.

Taken in: Brasil / Rio de Janeiro / Cosme Velho / Rio Comprido (show map)

Taken on: April 3, 2014

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