. Cassier's magazine . ALEGRETE, A TYPICAL STATION ON THE RIO GRANDE RAILWAY way (P. A. U. Ry.). The RioGrande line runs through the impor-tant towns of Pelotas and Bage, andjoins the P. A. U. main line atCacequy. The Rio Grande and Bageportion was built by a separate com-pany. But it was necessary, besides, tojoin the State with Rio de Janeiro, inthe north, and southward with Monte- video, and this has been done fromthe centre. The southern line starts from apoint a few miles out of Cacequyand runs due south to Santa Annade Livramento, the frontier stationwhence the northern extension of theC
. Cassier's magazine . ALEGRETE, A TYPICAL STATION ON THE RIO GRANDE RAILWAY way (P. A. U. Ry.). The RioGrande line runs through the impor-tant towns of Pelotas and Bage, andjoins the P. A. U. main line atCacequy. The Rio Grande and Bageportion was built by a separate com-pany. But it was necessary, besides, tojoin the State with Rio de Janeiro, inthe north, and southward with Monte- video, and this has been done fromthe centre. The southern line starts from apoint a few miles out of Cacequyand runs due south to Santa Annade Livramento, the frontier stationwhence the northern extension of theCentral of Uruguay Railway con-tinues through to Montevideo. On the other hand, an old Belgian. LOCOMOTIVE SHEDS, SANTA MARIA STATION THE RAILWAYS OF BRAZIL 19 companys line, the South WestBrazilian, runs north from SantaMaria through Cruz Alta to PassoFundo. An extension to the upperUruguay river, which is the frontierstream between Rio Grande andSanta Catharina, has been built bythe present lessees. This line crossesthe upper Uruguay opposite its con-fluence with the Rio de Peixe, aSanta Catharina stream, where itjoins the Sao Paulo & Rio GrandeRailway. Besides these inner lines, there Argentine line, which belongs to theArgentine North Eastern Railway,runs from Monte Caseros, oppositeQuarahim, to Libres, opposite Uru-guayana; Alvear, opposite Itaquy,and San Tome, opposite Sao Brazil Great Southern Rail-way is, therefore, building an ex-tension to this latter place. BeyondSan Tome the Argentine line runsdue north, and is, therefore, less ofa menace to Brazil. Along the east coast the lines arenot continuous, as thev are in the
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