History of rail transport in Brazil

Three steam locomotives made in England by William Fairbairn & Sons - which the more famous is the "Baroneza", hauled the trains on this 14 km (8.7 mi) short line.

Thirty years later, the railway company Estrada de Ferro Príncipe do Grão Pará further extended the line up into the mountains as far as Petrópolis.

On 16 March of that year, Rede Ferroviária Federal, Sociedade Anônima (RFFSA) was founded in a merger of 18 (later 19) individual regional companies.

During the privatisation and dissolution process, the RFFSA's route network was regionalised and licensed for operation by private companies.

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