Museu da Estrada de Ferro Madeira-Mamoré, Railway museum in São Miguel do Guaporé, Brazil.
The Museu da Estrada de Ferro Madeira-Mamoré is a railway museum housed in a former station building along the Madeira River. It spans multiple sections including a machine shop, foundry, carpentry workshop, and cargo warehouses displaying tools, machinery, and photographs from the railway's era.
The railway station was built between 1907 and 1912 as the Madeira-Mamoré line connected Brazil's remote interior to Porto Velho. The line operated from 1912 to 1972, serving as a vital transport link for the isolated region.
The museum keeps alive the memory of workers from around the world who built the Madeira-Mamoré Railway between 1907 and 1912. Walking through the exhibits, you sense the scale of this international effort and its lasting mark on the region.
The complex sits on Praça da EFMM in Porto Velho, on the bank of the Madeira River. The museum collection is held in Armazém nº 1, the 1912 zinc-clad warehouse measuring 50 by 20 metres; the workshop building and its recovered turntable are nearby. Allow time to move between the separate buildings and the square.
The rotunda at the workshop entrance, a turntable that directed machines and cars to their repair spot inside, was buried after the workshop stopped operating in 1972. It has since been fully recovered and is open to visitors, so the device seen today was dug out and restored rather than kept in place.
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