Estrada de Ferro Mauá
The Estrada de Ferro Mauá , or officially called Imperial Companhia de Navegação a Vapor e Estrada de Ferro de Petropolis , was the first railroad company in Brazil based in Magé .
It operated from April 30, 1854 the first railway line in Brazil from Porto de Mauá to Fragoso in today's state of Rio de Janeiro with a route length of 14.5 km, later extended to 15.19 km. This first route was constructed by the entrepreneur Irineu Evangelista de Sousa, later Visconde de Mauá. The route went after the Guia de Pacobaíba train station through today's Magé district to Fragoso, a place in the Inhomirim district. The extension up to the mountains to Vila Inhomirim was completed in 1856. Here 30 years later the cremalheira slope through the mountains to Petrópolis and Areal was realized. Although the section between Pacobaíba and Piabetá was shut down in the 1960s, there is again suburban traffic from the urban center of Rio de Janeiro operated by Supervia between Piabetá and Vila Inhomirim (coming as an extension of the current line from Saracuruna).
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- ^ Heinrich Handelmann: History of Brazil , page 471. Berlin 1860 , queried on August 28, 2011