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...From the AffonsoArinos school at Bello-Horizonte, some 300 miles across the steep slopes of the Serra da Mantiqueira range from Rio de Janeiro, last week a boisterous troop of boys raced for the depot of the Central do Brazil railway. They clambered into the nine creaking wooden coaches and snuggled down for the ecstatic ride home for Christmas. Winding south, the train picked up more passengers including laborers on their way to São Paulo farms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Disaster on Wheels | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

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