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Brazilian Railway Culture
Brazilian Railway Culture examines the cultural relationship Brazil has had with its railways since tracks were first laid by British, American and French engineers in the nineteenth century. ‘Railway’ and ‘Brazil’ are words not often found in the same sentence. Yet each year over seven hundred million passengers are carried by train in the major urban centres, and tens of thousands of visitors enjoy heritage steam rides at over a dozen restored lines and museums. Brazilian Railway Culture starts from the premise that Brazilian society and culture is not just samba, football and sex. The book takes a journey through Brazilian cultural output from 1865 to the present day, examining no...
Manual básico de engenharia ferroviária
Até as pedras sabem que transporte de carga de milhões de toneladas, sejam de produção agrícola ou mineral, entre outras, é realizado com eficiência e economia sobre trilhos. Transporte maciço de passageiros nas metrópoles, igualmente. No final do Segundo Império, o Brasil exibia uma das redes ferroviárias mais extensas do mundo. Em 1889 havia 53 ferrovias no País, percorrendo 9.572 km! A opção por transporte rodoviário inibiu os investimentos em modernização e ampliação das ferrovias, que, todavia, encontra muitos técnicos (e cidadãos) entusiastas por elas. Esta obra vem apoiar um renascimento do transporte sobre trilhos, oferecendo os subsídios necessários para os es...
