High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rail transport in Peru has never consisted of a true network, primarily comprising separate lines running inland from the coast. Many of the lines owe their origins to contracts granted to United States entrepreneurs Henry Meiggs and W. R. Grace and Company but the mountainous nature of Peru made expansion slow and much of the surviving mileage is of twentieth-century origin. It was also challenging to operate, especially in the age of the steam locomotive. In the latter part of the 1880s, the principal public railways, the Central and Southern, with others, passed to the control of The Peruvian Corporation, registered in London and controlled by Americans Michael and William R. Grace.

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