The Projeto Memória Ferroviária (Railway Memory Project, UNESPFAPESP) is a cross-disciplinary research project that turns the railway heritage of the São Paulo state (Brazil) into a laboratory for testing new methodologies, ...

This chapter is a case study of the dissemination of railway engineering research in Latin America developed by a railway engineering research group. The leader of the group is a female researcher. The authors aim to ...

The Northwest Railway of Brazil - NOB, built after 1905, constituted itself as a peculiar railway in relation to the others dedicated to coffee in Sao Paulo. It had an ambitious strategic purpose forged during the Empire, ...

Material sources have done little to contribute to research on Brazilian railway history (except for heritage studies and history of architecture). This interdisciplinary case study focuses on archaeological evidence to ...

In epistemological terms, the railway is considered as a study object that allows multiple observations. On the one hand, its exclusive role is transporting, but on the other hand, its symbolic and material value for the ...

The railway transportation played an important role in the setting of the spacing and cultural dynamics, because it brought new values and new social practices to the place where it was present, defining innumerous railway ...

Weed control on railways is frequently done by herbicide application, using large amounts of chemicals and labour. Only a few hectares of surface area on a railway can be many kilometres long so high levels of spatial ...

Judging by their success in Europe, Asia and North America, passenger and cargo railways are appreciated as the key to infrastructural development in Brazil. The issues are complex and steeped in uncertainty, as well as ...

Rail transport has indelibly marked the urban and social development of many locations, with railway stations assuming crucial roles due to their material and symbolic attributes. The decay of the railway system and ...