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Man spends 23 years building a steam locomotive from scratch in Australia, manufactures parts from raw materials inside his own shed, and now sees the machine leave home to pull tourists on a historic railway.

Carla Teles 17/06/2026 at 18:08

Interesting facts

High-speed railway construction in the Czech Republic uncovers the ground and reveals more than 1,000 ancient traces, with houses, graves, bronze objects, and a rare tool from the Roman period hidden for centuries.

Noel Budeguer 09/06/2026 at 16:11

Rail Transport

The strategic railway of Santa Catarina will receive R$ 608 million, will undergo historic modernization, and could transform logistics between Mafra and the Port of São Francisco do Sul.

Jefferson Augusto 07/06/2026 at 20:23

Economy

A bi-oceanic railway is expected to connect the Brazilian coast to the Chinese port of Chancay in Peru and cross the South American continent from coast to coast. It is part of the same package of R$ 140 billion in railways that the government is opening to investors later this year.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 26/05/2026 at 14:04

Construction

More than 20 billion dollars and 600 km of railway were built in record time in Africa to extract the hidden iron ore from Simandou from the forest, now the first ships are arriving in China and the IMF predicts a 25% jump in Guinea’s GDP.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 25/05/2026 at 23:59

Rail Transport

To clear the railway that will connect Rio de Janeiro and Espírito Santo, Iphan wants an archaeological sweep equivalent to three times the size of the island of Fernando de Noronha, and the Ministry of Transport considers the requirement disproportionate and unfeasible.

Bruno Teles 24/05/2026 at 17:04

Rail Transport

R$ 27.6 billion will be invested in the largest railway in Brazil under an agreement that renews the VLI concession in Centro-Atlântica for another 30 years and returns to the Union about 3,100 km of tracks considered deficient, which may go to new operators.

Bruno Teles 23/05/2026 at 13:33

Construction

Transnordestina receives a new financial injection of R$ 41.2 million from Banco do Nordeste to complete strategic sections of the railway of over 1,200 kilometers and expand freight transport in the Northeast, with the expectation of reducing logistical bottlenecks and strengthening Brazilian exports.

Hilton Libório 19/05/2026 at 16:20

Interesting facts

German living in Santa Catarina builds miniature trains by hand, recreates classic locomotives from his childhood in Germany, and transforms nights of work into a memory railway full of details in Pomerode.

Carla Teles 16/05/2026 at 14:37

Construction

The largest cross-border railway in the Middle East progresses with 40% of the construction completed, promising to connect five ports and reduce travel time to 100 minutes, but it is born under tension after drones have turned the region into a permanent risk route for global trade.

Carla Teles 13/05/2026 at 15:35

Logistics and Transportation

While Brazil concentrates billion-dollar railways in the hands of private giants through concession, Argentina is trying to recover 14,000 km of tracks on 9 fronts, betting on a model that may require up to 7 times more trains to transport the same cargo.

Andriely Medeiros de Araújo 08/05/2026 at 07:09

Construction

Criciúma wants to elevate railway to 7 meters in BRL 250 million project

Bruno Teles 05/05/2026 at 12:43

Man spends 23 years building a steam locomotive from scratch in Australia, manufactures parts from raw materials inside his own shed, and now sees the machine leave home to pull tourists on a historic railway.

High-speed railway construction in the Czech Republic uncovers the ground and reveals more than 1,000 ancient traces, with houses, graves, bronze objects, and a rare tool from the Roman period hidden for centuries.

The strategic railway of Santa Catarina will receive R$ 608 million, will undergo historic modernization, and could transform logistics between Mafra and the Port of São Francisco do Sul.

A bi-oceanic railway is expected to connect the Brazilian coast to the Chinese port of Chancay in Peru and cross the South American continent from coast to coast. It is part of the same package of R$ 140 billion in railways that the government is opening to investors later this year.

More than 20 billion dollars and 600 km of railway were built in record time in Africa to extract the hidden iron ore from Simandou from the forest, now the first ships are arriving in China and the IMF predicts a 25% jump in Guinea’s GDP.

To clear the railway that will connect Rio de Janeiro and Espírito Santo, Iphan wants an archaeological sweep equivalent to three times the size of the island of Fernando de Noronha, and the Ministry of Transport considers the requirement disproportionate and unfeasible.

R$ 27.6 billion will be invested in the largest railway in Brazil under an agreement that renews the VLI concession in Centro-Atlântica for another 30 years and returns to the Union about 3,100 km of tracks considered deficient, which may go to new operators.

German living in Santa Catarina builds miniature trains by hand, recreates classic locomotives from his childhood in Germany, and transforms nights of work into a memory railway full of details in Pomerode.

The largest cross-border railway in the Middle East progresses with 40% of the construction completed, promising to connect five ports and reduce travel time to 100 minutes, but it is born under tension after drones have turned the region into a permanent risk route for global trade.

While Brazil concentrates billion-dollar railways in the hands of private giants through concession, Argentina is trying to recover 14,000 km of tracks on 9 fronts, betting on a model that may require up to 7 times more trains to transport the same cargo.

Criciúma wants to elevate railway to 7 meters in BRL 250 million project

Mother and daughter build a 70 m² house with more than 8,000 discarded glass bottles and impress with their creativity; known as the Casa de Sal, the property is located on Itamaracá Island, in Pernambuco.

The river that “dies” in the desert never reaches the sea and yet gives life to one of Africa’s largest natural refuges in a truly impressive way.

He transformed an abandoned plastic water tank into an underground house in the “hobbit hole” style, using only repurposed pallet wood, without heavy machinery or expensive labor.

Libya built over 4,000 kilometers of underground pipelines to bring water from the Sahara to coastal cities in a project that the government itself called the Eighth Wonder of the World.

Toyota launches “family hybrid van” with 7 or 8 seats, 1.8 hybrid engine, fuel consumption of up to 23.8 km/l, and a price equivalent to about R$ 104,000 without taxes, below the Tiggo 8 Pro Plug-in Hybrid sold in Brazil: meet the Noah Hybrid 2026 in Japan.

China transforms desert-devastated area into the world’s largest artificial forest, planting trees for 60 years, blocking sand that reached Beijing, and creating a “green lung” of 92,000 hectares in a region once considered lost.

Desert sand, previously discarded for being too smooth for concrete, becomes an ecological brick in the United Arab Emirates, dispensing with Portland cement, curing at room temperature, and attempting to transform dunes useless for construction into raw material for a new arid engineering.