jueves, 29 de mayo de 2014

THE TRAM AS TRANSPORTATION

The tram of Lima 

In 1826 the Peruvian government facilitated the construction of a rail network becoming the first country in South America with this type of transport. Years later the steam railroad, which began operations in 1851, between Lima and Callao.

The tram Lima was a means of mass transportation opened in 1878 and closed in 1965.





The electric tram 

Between 1902 and 1906 the tram Lima that had opened in 1878 with animal traction, began his conversion to electric traction and were built two new lines of interurban electric streetcar, "Electric Railway" as he was known popularly: Of Lima to Chorrillos and of Lima to Callao.











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