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Code|Beta Photography [http://www.codebeta.net]

Code|Beta Photography [http://www.codebeta.net]

Taken in the Terraba river in Ciudad Cortes.

-LM

Code|Beta Photography [http://www.codebeta.net]

Years ago trains used to travel on these train tracks that were built to transport the bananas from one side of the country to the other. Nowadays the trains once again travel through these forgotten and heavily damaged train tracks but instead of moving produce they move people between the cities of Costa Rica.

On August 10th it was the first day in years that the train began traveling, this caused for many to line up to take a ride in the new trains. Here is a photo of the train station in the city of Heredia

According to the local news, there were a lot more people in the afternoon than the morning trips. Due to the fact that the train service is just starting and it isn’t as common as in other countries, it currently only works for a couple of hours in the morning and a couple of hours in the evening and because of this most found that the evening was the best time for the trip causing for long lines and delays. At one point they stopped selling tickets for the train to determine if it would be possible for the service to handle that many people

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