The Interest is Reborn for the Branch

Grain silos in Pirapora yard.
Photo by Alexandre Almeida



Such situation stayed up to 2004, when Vale intended to build two lines to solve the problems of traffic of FCA. The first line would be the connection Patrocinio to Sete Lagoas or Prudente de Morais that would eliminate the whole old line of EFOM and VFCO in the area of Patrocinio to Divinópolis, and of there to Belo Horizonte. That work, besides activating the traffic of the trains of grains, would end with trains for very populated areas along the current line in use. The new plan among Ibiá to Sete Lagoas would have 450 kilometers. With that, the speed, that today is of 16 kilometers per hour in the old passage would pass for 60 kilometers per hour. Now FCA transports grains, fuels, alcohol, sugar, cement and containers in that area, with use of trains with distributed traction (locotrol and tricotrol).
The second work intended by Vale would be the connection Pirapora to Rio Verde, and Pirapora to Unaí, from where would be done the connection Unaí to Anápolis, tying FCA and EFVM with to FNS.