Heritage route
Trem do Vinho
Bento Gonçalves → Carlos Barbosa · Brazil
- Distance
- 23 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 15 km/h
- Top speed
- 25 km/h
- Operator
- Giordani Turismo
- Train
- 1941 Maria Fumaça steam train
- Countries
- Brazil
- In service since
- 1919
- Runs
- most days, 1–3 departures
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
A 1941 steam engine ambles 23 km through the Serra Gaúcha wine country to a soundtrack of tarantellas and popping corks.
The Italian wine colonies of the Serra Gaúcha finally got their railway in 1919, and after regular traffic faded, tour operator Giordani relit the boiler in 1992 to create Brazil’s most festive steam ride. A 1941 Maria Fumaça takes ninety minutes over the 23 km from Bento Gonçalves to Carlos Barbosa, pausing at Garibaldi while accordions, tarantellas and rounds of local wine and sparkling juice work through the wooden cars.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 8821655 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 4 m from it
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Along the way
- Bento Gonçalves depot
- Serra Gaúcha vineyards
- Garibaldi station stop
- Onboard Italian folk show
- Carlos Barbosa
Read more on Wikipedia (in PT) ↗
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