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Vale BB40-9W #1159 waiting licence to departure from Vespasiano yard on way to Tubarão port, in Vitoria ES.



Vale #832 and #1159 leading train J on way to Tubarão port, in Vitoria ES.



The trains of Vale are back to the "sertão" after a year moved away of the area.
Since the beginning of the international financial crisis that affected the world in 2009,Vale start to collect rent of their locomotives given in to FCA for traction of the grain trains, and the point of exchange of wagons in the route of the"sertão" was established in Capitão Eduardo station, in Santa Luzia MG. FCA, then, allocated the GT26CU-2 in the area above Capitão Eduardo, making the traction of all of the heavy trains in the area. But the excessive problems presented by old GT26 in the traction of heavy trains, allies to the great number of soy wagons in the daily yard switching operations in the tight yard of Capitão Eduardo, did FCA and Vale to decide for retaking of the "direct" trains. Those trains come out complete from Wilson Lobato's yard to Vitória ES. With that, the locomotives Dash 9 and DDM45 visited the area of the "sertão" again. Today the grain train J (soy) was being leaded by DDM45 #832 and BB40-9W #1159, both in reverse tracion heading for Costa Lacerda, where they will be turned in the turntable or be substituted for other locomotives, that will take the train until the port of Tubarão, in Vitória ES