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Title: Cassier's magazine
Year: 1891 (1890s)
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Subjects: Engineering
Publisher: New York Cassier Magazine Co.
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y, but also, to agreat extent, on the Rio Grande har-bour dues and the ocean freightcharges beyond. Such is the rough outline of therailway system, which we will nowproceed to examine. But a numberof navigable streams, upon whichriver services are maintained, shouldbe added, not so much because ofthese services in themselves as be-cause of the importance the State at-taches to them, doing what it can toprevent railway lines competing withthem. In the west, during the wet season,steamers run up the Rio Uruguay to-San Borja, and up its affluent, theRio Ibicuhy, to a point near Cacequy. In the east, four of the RioJacuhys affluents join it near PortoAlegre, and these five streams arenavigable some distance inland: theRio Jacuhy, up to Cachoeira, and oc-casionally up to Santo Angelo; theRio Cahy, up to Sao Sebastiao; theRio Taquary, up to Lageado; theRio dos Sinos, up to Taqrara, andthe Rio Gravatahy, up to the town ofGravatahy. The Compagnie Auxiliaire des 9? Wf THE RAILWAYS OF BRAZIL 21
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22 CASSIERS MAGAZINE Chemins de Fer au Bresil is a Bel-gian company, which has leasedalmost the entire system for sixtyyears. The earliest of these lines, andthe oldest one in the State, runs fromPorto Alegre to Novo Hamburgo, adistance of 26 miles. It was builtby an English company and openedto traffic in 1876. I suppose it wasat first more of a tramway than arailway, and the promoters could cer-tainly not foresee that this short roadwould eventually become the originalsection of the main line connectingPorto Alegre with the rest of Brazil.The Porto Alegre terminal is situ-ated on the banks of the Rio, andfrom here the line is laid in thestreet, parallel to that of the electrictramway. It is rather odd to notethat the latter looks far the more im-portant of the two, because the rail-way is laid to the metre gauge, asare all those of the State, and witha light 36-pound rail, whereas thetramway is broad gauge, and its railweighs 100 pounds to the runningyard. It was usual to build thes

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