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If you wanted to pretend that you're going to imitate the stone by stone re-building (a la London Bridge which now resides in Arizona) of a truly beautiful railway station for your railroad empire, might I suggest you look no further than this station courtesy of Railpictures.Net.  It is the former station of  the Estrada de Ferro Central do Brasil RR and is in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais Province, Brazil.  This picture was taken on 12-26-11 and the station is now used as a museum of art.  Actually, it reminds me of good, old Philadelphia as the station front definitely has elements of PRR's 30th Street station in its architecture and the clock tower above is just lacking the statue of Billy Penn on it to be a replica of Philly's City Hall.  <http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=399118&nseq=32>.

 

Bill

 

 

Estrada de Ferro Central do Brasil_Central Station @Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais Province, Brazil 12-26-11

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Hi Bill, great looking staion. I think it would be a real eye-catcher on any railroad.

 

As you well know all the stations that the PRR built between downtown Philadelphia and Paoli, or the Main Line where designed to replicate old English architecture,

so why not that of Brazil.

 

Boy, but you have to admit it would take one Cracker-Jack modeler to copy such detail.

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