WONDERFUL RAILWAY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18891, 13 December 1924, Page 2 (Supplement)

WONDERFUL RAILWAY.

BUILT BY DOCTORS. The most wonderful, and at tin- same j lime the most Isolated, railway in the ■ world is in South America. It begins j and ends two thousand miles from civilis- I at ion. Thr- terminus of .steam navigation up the Amazon and its mighty tributary, the Madeira River, is at Rorto Velho, two i thousand miles from the sea. Hero the! Maci.eira-Murmore Railway begins, carry- [ the traveller and bis merchandise past 250 miles of cataracts and rapids to the navigable livers of Bolivia.

The task of getting European goods | into north-eastern Bolivia used to be gigtntic It took six months, and every pound had to he carried en the lacks of natives to escape the rap,id;. The railway was begun as long ago as R174, but it, had to be abandoned, because every sleeper laid cost a life, J; was only when medical science stepped in [•> help the engineers that the, colossal task was accomplished ten years ago.

The line was buik by th<J t.lovouiment of Brazil. It circumveius 19 cataracts, starts 2000 miles hxia\ any other lailroad, and ends at ;, similar distame in Bolivia. The great waterways coinpUfce the journey from Atlantic to [Pacific. The Americans :;av that i'., was really built by "Dr. Low f,i< L , and quiuline."