Classic route
Tren de la Muerte
Santa Cruz → Puerto Quijarro · Bolivia
- Distance
- 650 km
- Fastest time
- 16 h
- Average speed
- 41 km/h
- Top speed
- 60 km/h
- Operator
- Ferroviaria Oriental
- Train
- Ferroviaria Oriental railcars & coaches
- Countries
- Bolivia
- In service since
- 1955
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Bolivia’s notorious “Death Train” rattles east from Santa Cruz through Jesuit mission country and the Chiquitano dry forest to the Brazilian frontier.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 8262149 — 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 3 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Ferroviaria Oriental — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
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