Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Rio de Janeiro's iconic Christ the Redeemer statue gained a new attraction Wednesday, as authorities revealed the latest Swiss-engineered train to scale the mountain.
Since the train's inception in 1884, it has gone through several different iterations. However, as the statue grew in global prominence, it came to rely on safer Swiss manufactured vehicles in 1979.
The state of the art train was presented to the public in a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wednesday, October 9th, which also marks 135 years since the line was inaugurated.
The Corcovado concession contracted Swiss Company Stadler. . .
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