The Railway Era

Rondônia — The Railway Era.

4 moments in this segment.

1. 1910 — Clearing for the Madeira-Mamoré Railway. c.1910. Forest felled to open the route for the Madeira-Mamoré railway — the first great clearing of Rondônia, decades before the highways.
2. 1910 — Camp in Opened Forest. A railway-era camp inside a freshly opened stretch of Amazon forest — the leading edge of settlement at the turn of the century.
3. 1910 — Village Along the Railway Line. A settlement and its cleared land beside the Madeira-Mamoré line — the pattern of road-then-clearing that would define Rondônia.
4. 1912-01-01 — The Devil's Railway. The Madeira-Mamoré railway, built through the jungle at the cost of thousands of lives, first opened this corner of the Amazon.