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Vale to invest USD 12 billion.
Vale, Brazil’s mining giant, plans to invest around USD 12 billion to increase port and railway capacity.
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Books and DVD’s
Train to the Sun review and Ferrovias Guatemala: A farewell look. How corruption killed a railroad.
More Power for Carajás. Photos by G. Gabritsch.
In April, Brazil’s broad gauge Estrada de Ferro Carajás (EFC), took delivery of 23 new locomotives.

Sefecha: Going, Going... Gone? By Sergio García & Daniel Thomas
LT takes a look at Servicios Ferroviarios del Chaco (Sefecha), today on the brink of collapse

A Giant’s pride.
Riding the Estrada de Ferro Vitoria a Minas’ passenger train from Belo Horizonte to Vitoria. By Martín Cornejo & Guido Beck

 The Sierra de la Ventana Hotel and its railway.
The story of Argentina’s first and very short lived narrow gauge tourist railway.