RAILWAYS II RFFSA

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The Second Railway Project consists of high priority investments scheduled for implementation beginning during the first two years of RFFSA's Five-Year 1975-79 Investment Program and including: (a) construction of new lines and realignments; (b) improvements to stations and yards; (c) improvements to and expansion of signalling and telecommunications facilities; (d) modernization and expansion of motive power and rolling stock; (e) improvements to permanent way, stations, yards, signalling and communications, and procurement of additional unit trains for suburban passenger services in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo; (f) track rehabilitation, workshop modernization, electrification, gauge unification, and other miscellaneous investments in operating facilities; and (g) improvements in headquarters facilities, execution of economic feasibility and engineering studies, and implementation of training programs.