The Train That Reached Corcovado Forty-Seven Years Before the Statue Did

Rio’s Corcovado rack railway opened in 1884, hauled Christ the Redeemer up the mountain from 1926, and still runs on a three-phase system with two overhead wires. The post The Train That Reached Corcovado Forty-Seven Years Before the Statue Did appeared first on The Rio Times.

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