Edited sentence: (from Tico Train Spanish).According to Encyclopedia Britannica 1911, the transcontinental railway from Limon to Puntarenas was begun in 1871, and formed the nucleus of a system intended ultimately to connect all the fertile parts of the country, and to join the railways of Nicaragua and Panama.At San José these lines reunited, and the railway continued to Alajuela, the small Pacific port of Tivives, and Puntarenas.First electric train ran from San José to Puntarenas on April 8, 1930.In 1926, a decision was made to electrify the lines.It skirted the Atlantic coast as far as the small port of Matina; thence it passed inland to Reventazón River, and bifurcated to cross the northern mountains; one branch going north of Irazú, while the other traversed the Ochomogo Pass.Since 2000, the state railroad authority (Incofer) has been working to resume and popularize rail transport again.The railroad network was damaged during an earthquake in 1991 () and operation suspended in 1995.The railways were owned partly by the state, partly by the Costa Rica railway company, which, in 1904, arranged to build several branch lines through the banana districts of the Atlantic littoral