Death comes to us all. Life's but a walking shadow | From what I've read about this project (and I haven't seriously investigated it) building a railroad over or through the Andes to move bulk materials like grain, iron ore etc that can be loaded on ships at any number of ports in northern or southern Brazil doesn't look too practical. Especially now that they are enlarging the Panama Canal and talking about building another one. It looks like a Brazilian government boondoggle.
And then you have to ask youself why would the political and economic interests of the northern (or southern) coastal areas of Brazil agree to a project which is guarrenteed to cut them out of the economic loop? It would seem to me to make much more sense to make the improvements to the rail lines and ports on the northern coast at much less cost than build a railroad over a mountain chain.
But what do I know? Just because a project is ill-advised and impractical hasn't ever stopped one yet. |
Possible Mega Rail project in Brazil ?
