D10,
So, it's basically
Build a railroad and they will come?"
I'm sorry, but economics don't work that way.
Brazil needs to attract immigrants, attract foreign capital, enact a tariff to protect it's nascent industries, and develop a robust export market to earn hard currency. Building railroads to nowhere with government bonds or opening the Amazon basin to ecologically inappropriate development isn't going to do a thing.
Why do you know that? In the OTL he died nearly broke and with most of his industries and businesses in foreign hands.
If it wasn't for those sneaky Shriners... Always driving around in those little cars, wearing fezzes, and wrecking Latin American economies on orders from their masters beneath the Pyramid of Giza...
Bill