A ferrovia que matou milhares de homens na selva e nasceu inútil

Deep in the Amazon rainforest lies an abandoned railway that cost thousands of lives: the Madeira Mamore, the Devil's Railroad. This is the full story: the rubber that moved the world, the treaty that forced Brazil to build it, the attempts swallowed by malaria, the workers from more than fifty nations who ended up in the jungle, and the final irony, the most expensive train in Brazil was finished exactly when rubber collapsed and its whole purpose evaporated. Full sources and credits in the pinned comment.