Scenic route
Trem do Corcovado
Rio de Janeiro → Corcovado · Brazil
- Distance
- 3.8 km
- Fastest time
- 20 min
- Top speed
- 15 km/h
- Operator
- Trem do Corcovado
- Train
- Swiss rack EMU
- Countries
- Brazil
- In service since
- 1884
- Riders per year
- ≈ 600k
Brazil’s first electrified railway (1884) — a rack train climbing 700 m through Tijuca rainforest to Christ the Redeemer above Rio.
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