This month trains will start running on Ferronorte, a newly built railway linking Alto Taquari, in the state's south-eastern corner, with an existing line to the port of Santos.
The only thing he possibly loved more was the inch-scale hand-built railway that ran round his garden, which with huffing and panting and articulated pistons moved much like an ideal cartoon character: everything functional, everything with a purpose.
Built by railway baron Charles Melville Hayes, the hotel also has connections to another, more famous 100 year anniversary this spring.
It was built by a railway company in an attempt to attract tourists to the Lincolnshire resort.
The train will run between the city centre and the suburb of Syokimau, where Kenya has built its first railway station in more than 80 years.
His company has no real infrastructure problems because for the most part it has built its own railway lines to connect its mines with port facilities it also owns.
When a railway was built here a century ago, it was hailed as a technological wonder.
He points to a Chinese railway being built from Djibouti, on the Red Sea, to Addis Ababa.
Like the Panama Canal, which opened almost six decades later, the railway was built to expedite trade shipments between America's west and east coasts in the wake of the Californian Gold Rush.
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But the Soviet-built trans-Siberian railway is broad-gauge.
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The canyon was inhabited by native peoples as far back as 10, 000 BC, European explorers braved the inhospitable terrain first in the 1500s and then again in the 1800s, and the canyon became accessible to its first influx of visitors in 1901 when the Grand Canyon Railway was built to service mining claims.
Tributes have been paid to a campaigner who prevented a by-pass being built on a disused Dorset railway line.
In the past decade it has built almost 60 miles of railway lines, creating an elegant subway system that is ill-suited for such a dispersed, centreless place.
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China has a long history of building and maintaining Tanzanian infrastructure, most notably the Tazara railway, which was built in the first half of the 1970s.
The main routes built as a result of the railway mania would surely have come about with or without the frenzy of the 1840s, and been part of a more rationally planned national network.
The Harecastle railway tunnel at Kidsgrove was built in 1848 and has been disused since the 1960s.
Runways could be built on elevated platforms over rivers, railway stations or roads.
Metropolitan Railway Carriage Number 353 was built in 1892 and ran on what is now known as the Circle Line.
The tunnel, which was being used by a car repair company, is built on the former site of Dingle railway station.
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The station would be built at the intersection of the Cotswold railway line and Birmingham to Bristol main railway line, the council said.
The facility, which would service new electric trains on the Great Western mainline, would be built in an area known as the railway triangle.
Its system uses modified railway cars on a specially built track.
The Kielder Water and Forest Park Development Trust will use its grant for a six-month project focussing on the social and industrial heritage surrounding the viaduct, which was built in 1862 to carry the Border Counties Railway over the North Tyne River.
They heard extra capacity is being built on the Jubilee line, the Docklands Light Railway to Woolwich and Stratford International.
The class A3 Pacific locomotive, designed by Sir Nigel Gresley, was built in 1923 for the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) at Doncaster.
The 17-mile (26km) route will follow an old Great Western Railway branch line through a tunnel at Grenofen built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Polish plans call for 1, 200km of new motorways to be built in the next six years, and for the railway network to triple in length.
The railway is a Soviet triumph of man over nature, built in an inhospitable land of extreme winter cold and mosquito-cloud filled summers.
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