Classic route
Estrada de Ferro Carajás
São Luís → Parauapebas · Brazil
Estrada de Ferro Carajás in pictures
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- Distance
- 892 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 16 h
- Average speed
- 56 km/h
- Top speed
- 80 km/h
- Operator
- Vale
- Train
- CRRC coaches (2025 fleet)
- Countries
- Brazil
- In service since
- 1985
- Riders per year
- ≈ 400k
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
One of the world’s great everyday long hauls: 16 hours through Amazon-edge towns, sharing rails with 300-plus-wagon iron-ore trains bound for Carajás.
How this line was checked
- The 870 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 4845213 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within 31 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 99.4% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 7 m); the longest stretch away from it is 3.5 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Vale — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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