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Paraguay Railroad Timeline:

Time of Lopez:

1854: begin efforts to build a railway line during the presidency of Don Carlos Antonio López .

1861: opening the service to transport passengers from Central Station to Trinidad. (Botanical Garden)

1864: the service is enabled to Cerro León, then comes up Paraguarí.

1864-1870: War of the Triple Alliance against Paraguay during this conflict, the Central Station became a field hospital, like other public buildings. A sad story referred to from this place the wounded of the war saw the funeral of Gen. Joseph Hedwig Diaz, who had died shortly after the Battle of Curupayty.

After the war, the Railroad is sold to pay the public debt and a debt to Brazil.

1886: President Bernardino Caballero retrieves the railway to the Paraguayan State. In August of that year authorized the hiring company Patri and continue with the work between Paraguarí and Villarrica.

the British Period:

1887: during the government of Patricio Escobar, authorizing the sale of the railway from Asuncion to Villarrica.

1889: in April, the company "The Paraguay Central Railway Co." signs construction contracts based on equity issuers.

1887 - 1894: stations are built Sapukay, Caballero, Ybytymi Hyaty, Villarrica, Borja, Iturbe, Maciel, Sosa and Yegros.

1891: opens the stretch to the Rio Pirapó Paraguarí.

1894: Building is completed Sapukay workshops.

1907: the British company remains as the sole owner of the railroad.

1909: changed the old double rails fungus and provides rolling stock, locomotives and thirty-four eight-car trains.

1911: the line is to Encarnación.

1913: opening the service to Encarnación.

1914: the service is enabled to Bob and Char, today Eugenio A. Garay.

1919: the same branch is extended to Abaí.

1951, the government intervenes the railroad by the technical deficiencies and services, in order to improve the system.

1959: The company performs a service stop and interventionist government forces her to keep taking care of the budget deficit.

The power of the State Railroad:

1961: Paraguayan government purchase the railroad and all property in 2,000,000 pounds ten year period, without interest.

1964: the company was nationalized and creates the President Carlos Antonio Lopez Railway.

1991: the railroad company becomes subject to privatization.

1999: Trains leave from work for scheduled passenger traffic.

2000: FCCAL declaring the State as a public entity in reform and transformation.

2001: the entity is operated with a view to the transformation process and preparation for transfer to private hands.

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