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SD40-2 — C.B.C.P.P. n 18 2-6-2ST

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Description This is the first 100% brazilian locomotive, built and designed entirely by the brazilian João Bottene in the year of 1933, Originally built to be used in the Usina Monte Alegre (a plant sugar) and purchased in 1961 by the C.B.C.P.P. (Companhia Brasileira de Cimentos Portland Perus), was abandoned in 1983 in the workshop of Gato Preto in the city of Cajamar was rescued in 2012 and taken to the rail yard of Corredor, this waiting repairs to be able to run again now with touristic trains.
The railway is the E.F.P.P(Estrada de Férro Perus-Pirapora) located in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, with 22km of extension, and having a narrow gauge of 600mm(1,97 ft), inaugurated in 1914, initially built to transport whitewash from the region of the city of Cajamar to the city of Perus where the railroad meets the E.F.S.J.(Estrada férrea Santos a Júndiai) where the cargo was transferred to the large gauge wagons of the E.F.S.J. bound for the port of Santos, increased your activity in 1926 where the C.B.C.P.P.(Companhia Brasileira de Cimento Portland Perus)(the first brazilian cement industry) was opened, but in 1982 the C.B.C.P.P. bankrupt and the railroad lost its main source of profits leading to bankruptcy of the railroad, in 2010 a reform was initiated for tourist purposes, very roll material already been recovered, today the preserved railroad starts in the kilometer 2 and ends on the kilometer 5 in the rail yard of Corredor.
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VinnyMartello [2016-12-07 16:36:30 +0000 UTC]

I love old steam locomotives.

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