Antioquia Railway

In the nineteenth century, Antioquia was then a sovereign state with six departments and its capital in Medellín when the plans began for a railway.

[4] Cuban engineer Francisco Javier Cisnero was hired to finish the construction of the railway in eight years.

The plan was for a railway bordering the river to start in Puerto Berrío and end in the Barbosa district.

The railroad was completed before the global economic crisis of 1929, which closed capital markets and foreign credit to works such as this one (see Colombian economy and politics 1929–58).

The novel transport system eased the work required to move the crops, since the trade began to be made much more quickly and at substantially lower costs.

The Thousand Days' War hurt the country and consequently the national railways, which had been developed simultaneously with Antioquia.

Indeed, during this time the rail service in the country was suspended for three years, and because of the war they were destroyed, restored and then demolished, repeatedly over many seasons.

The Central Bank was built from part of this money, but most of these funds were used to restore the railways since the time of the presidency of Rafael Reyes.

The money from this sale, fortunately, led to the birth of the Institute for the Development of Antioquia, which was born by Order No.

In 1988, by Act 21 there was the creation of the Empresa Colombiana de Ferrocarriles in order to upgrade and maintain roads and Societies Rail Transport (STF), which existed until 1999 and were in charge of managing the commercial train service; and finally the Social Fund liabilities National Railways which handled the pensions, benefits and allowances of workers.

Indeed, Colombia has a large network of 3,600 kilometers of railways with only a few functional kilometers belonging to the coal mines of El Cerrejón; the tourist train or railway Savannah Savannah, Turistren, which makes its way from Bogota to Zipaquirá with just 52 km travel and ranging to the Jaime Duque (Briceño) park in Caro; the railroad Bogota - Peace River (Boyacá), which corresponds to the Northeast Railway line by the national government to use cargo Pacific Railroad between Cali and Buenaventura; among others.

In this regard indicates Gabriel Poveda: "Based on information in Antioquia and other parts of the country, PW Mac Greevy has calculated that the average freight bridle paths of Colombia in the period 1845-1880 was 41.6 cents per ton/kilometer.