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On Wed, 28 Aug 2024 23:37:58 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
wrote:

Do YOU wantr to lose 12.5% of your income to a state that does nothing but build a train to nowhere?

I'd rather have a train to nowhere than have the government
destroy railways. Here is Brazil private steel and truck-manufacturing
companies won the privatization bid(AKA paid the largest bribes), then
ripped up most the tracks for the iron, sold all the eucalyptus that
was planted along the railways, and fired all the employees.
Most of the trains that remain are used for transporting iron
ore. They don't accept passengers or third party freight.

Almost all freight is done by road now. What was once cheap is
now very expensive.

Wikipedia:

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Currently the country's rail network is almost entirely used for heavy
freight transport only, all of the electrification of routes which
were used for intercity passenger trains in broad gauge lines in São
Paulo (state) are completely dismantled, as well as most of the train
stations that are now in ruins (some were refurbished and are used as
museums, government facilities and other purposes). Much of the
dual-track lines are also abandoned, with trains making use of only
one track now, most of which are in a very basic state of maintenance,
running at very slow speeds. The lines and branch lines which were
used for passenger only, the current cargo companies had no interest
in, and are now completely abandoned. Brazil today has only a few
heritage railways and two long-distance trains operated by Vale on
narrow gauge that are more of a tourist attraction because of the
scenic journey than a transportation system, especially because of the
slow operating speed (60 km/h maximum), making Brazil's land public
transportation infrastructure one of the worst and slowest in the
world.
//

PS A train is not to "nowhere" forever. It's cheap transport.
Factories will appear and with them communities and commerce. Land in
"nowhere" is cheap. A good investment.
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