The Great Venezuela Railway

The Sächsische Maschinenfabrik (Sachsen Machine Factory) around 1905. It made some parts for the locomotives of the Great Venezuela Railway.

Reading about the history of the the German Krupp company which built the Great Venezuela Railway. When Venezuelan President Cipriano Castro, a warlord who had seized power, stopped making payments Great Britain, France, Germany, and Italy imposed a naval blockade on Venezuela in what was called the Venezuelan crisis of 1902-1903.


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