Saw-tooth roofs
American ironwork.
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The Fepasa Complex in Jundiaí is the old workshop of the Companhia Paulista railway, which needed a bigger site than its Campinas workshop to maintain locomotives and carriages and chose Jundiaí for its strategic position. Building began in 1892 to a design by Gustavo Adolpho da Silveira, and the workshop opened in 1897, working for decades on maintenance, assembly, construction and painting. The American firm Phoenix Bridge supplied the iron structure of its saw-tooth roofs. The building was divided into a north wing for repairing carriages and wagons, a south wing for machinery and tools, and a central block for offices and stores. The company was nationalised in the 1960s and merged into the state-owned Fepasa in 1971, and the whole complex was listed as heritage in 2004. Today it houses the Companhia Paulista Museum alongside city offices and a technology college, while part of it still stands in ruins. It suits lovers of railways and industrial architecture; check the museum's opening times.
American ironwork.
Railway history.
Listed 2004.
Central Jundiaí, São Paulo state
The Companhia Paulista railway museum, city offices and a technology college; part of it is in ruins.
