Heritage route
Maria Fumaça (VFCJ)
Campinas (Anhumas) → Jaguariúna · Brazil
- Distance
- 24 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 10 min
- Average speed
- 21 km/h
- Top speed
- 30 km/h
- Operator
- ABPF
- Train
- ABPF-restored Brazilian steam + wooden coaches
- Countries
- Brazil
- In service since
- 1875
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Brazil’s flagship steam railway: ABPF volunteers fire century-old locomotives up the 1875 Mogiana trunk from Campinas to Jaguariúna every weekend.
How this line was checked
- The 23 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 14067682 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 90.4% of this line lies within 250 m of real track, a median 5 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: ABPF — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in PT) ↗
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