Grove Farm's Railroad and Lihue Plantation Railroad

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Lihue Plantation Railway
Route length: 0.15 km + 1.6 km
Gauge : 762 mm ( narrow gauge )

The still 150 m long Grove Farm's Railroad and the 1.6 km long Lihue Plantation Railroad are two former interconnected narrow gauge railways on the island of Kaua'i from Hawaii with a track width of 2 feet 6 inches (762 mm).

history

Grove Farm's sugar cane was processed in the Lihue Plantation sugar factory from the 1870s. The Grove Farm did not have its own sugar factory. The narrow-gauge railways at Grove Farm and Lihue Plantation were linked. The Lihue Plantation Railroad was in operation from 1892 to 1959. In 1931 there was a 50 km long permanently laid main line and 8 km flying track . There was a connection to the port in Anahola via the Ahukini Terminal and Railway , acquired in 1934 . The first diesel locomotives were used from 1938 and were used at the same time as the older steam locomotives until 1951. From 1951 to 1959 only diesel locomotives were used. The railway was shut down in 1959 and completely scrapped. Grove Farm's steam locomotives were preserved because they were parked in their own locomotive shed and remained there after the tracks were scrapped.

Locomotives at the Grove Farm Sugar Plantation Museum

Grove Farm Homestead

The Grove Farm Sugar Plantation Museum's collection has preserved the original Grove Farm steam locomotives. It was founded by Mabel and Elsie Wilcox, nieces of George Norton Wilcox , who bought the Grove Farm Plantation in 1864. The siblings were committed to maintaining the rail vehicles when they were taken out of service in the late 1950s after the Koloa Plantation was taken over by the Grove Farm Plantation in 1947. By 1970, the steam locomotives would have been sold to the Walt Disney Company for almost $ 500 each if Mabel Wilcox hadn't raised the same price to get the locomotives on Kauai. Grove Farm bequeathed the four steam locomotives to the museum when Mabel Wilcox converted the inherited plantation into a museum in the 1970s. When she died in 1978, she left a foundation for the museum including the locomotives. They have since been added to the National Register of Historic Places as Grove Farm Company Locomotives .

Paulo

The highlight of the collection is the Paulo steam locomotive , manufactured by the Hohenzollern Works in Düsseldorf in 1887 and named after Paul Isenberg, the owner of the Koloa Plantation. It was the third steam locomotive in Hawaii when it was shipped to Koloa Plantation in 1888 for $ 4,000. Previously it was a Baldwin locomotive with a gauge of 24 inches (610 mm), which is said to have sunk in the sand dunes of Pu'unene on the island of Maui , and a Claus Spreckels locomotive from 1882, which is stored in Maui. It is now the oldest operational steam locomotive in Hawaii.

It is now kept in the Lihue Plantation Sugar Mill and is put into operation once a month and on special occasions on a restored section of the Lihue Plantation Railroad.

Wainiha

The Wainiha steam locomotive, built in 1915 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia , originally belonged to the McBryde Plantation and was sold to the Lihue Plantation in 1932. It is named after a stream on the north beach, and was the last steam locomotive in Hawaii to be used industrially in 1957. It was completely overhauled in 1975 and is ready for use. In 2000 she was alongside Paulo on the set of the movie To End All Wars .

Wahiawa

The Wahiawa steam locomotive, built by Baldwin in 1921 , was used by the Kauai Railway for passenger transport. It was originally called Port Allen after the port and terminus on the west coast of Kaua'i. The locomotive was acquired by the McBryde Sugar Company in 1938 and named after a stream in West Kaua'i and sold to the Grove Farm Company in 1947. It has to be overhauled occasionally.

Kaipu

The Kaipu steam locomotive, built by Baldwin in 1925, was one of the first locomotives in the Hawaiian sugar industry. Originally called Kokee by the Hawaiian Sugar Company , it was named after a senior executive at Grove Farm when it was acquired by them in 1941. Her cab is already made of sheet steel, unusually, and she has smaller drive wheels than the other Hawaiian Baldwins with external counterweights and coupling rods on the rear drive wheels. It was taken out of service in 1953, restored in 1983 and is ready for use.

Railway line

The Grove Farm Museum acquired two lots and in 2004 moved a narrow-gauge track along Haleko Road near the center of modern Lihue . Only later was it recognized that the newly acquired land ran through historical routes including rights of way. As a result, these still existing routes were restored. When the museum acquired the 28,000 m² and 61,000 m² properties from the Lihue Plantation Company, it was not aware of the historical routes on these properties.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Grove Farm Sugar Plantation Museum: Kauai's Sugarcane Railroad and Trains at Grove Farm.
  2. ↑ Dave Peterson: Grove Farms / Lihue Plantation Railroad: Track length.
  3. ↑ Dave Peterson: Grove Farms / Lihue Plantation Railroad: The original idea.
  4. ↑ Dave Swanson: Grove Farms / Lihue Plantation Railroad: Two film documentaries.
  5. ↑ a b Dennis Fujimoto: 'Paulo' takes passengers on historic ride to see tomorrow , The Garden Island. January 9, 2009. Archived from the original on July 24, 2010 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved May 2, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / thegardenisland.com 
  6. ↑ a b Dennis Fujimoto: Love of trains not stifled by showers , The Garden Island. August 15, 2009. Archived from the original on July 24, 2010 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved May 2, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / thegardenisland.com 
  7. ↑ Tammi Andersland: Echoes of Wailua: Sugar Part III - Kaua'i's transformation , The Garden Island. May 13, 2007. Archived from the original on June 20, 2016 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved May 4, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / thegardenisland.com 
  8. ↑ a b c d e f Robert J. Schleck: Grove Farm Company Locomotives nomination form . In: National Register of Historic Places . US National Park Service. April 1, 1979. Retrieved June 25, 2010.
  9. ↑ a b c d Anthony Sommer: Choo-chooing Up The Scenery . July 8, 2000. Retrieved May 3, 2010. 
  10. ^ Grove Farm museum's 'Plantation Railway Collection'. Retrieved June 21, 2016.
  11. ↑ a b Kauai Trains . Retrieved May 2, 2010.
  12. ^ A b Register of the Lihue Plantation Company . University of Hawaii. Retrieved May 2, 2010.
  13. ^ Dennis Fujimoto: Take a train into Kaua'i's past , The Garden Island. April 13, 2007. Archived from the original on July 24, 2010 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved May 2, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / thegardenisland.com 
  14. ↑ a b c d Surviving Steam Locomotives in Hawaii . SteamLocomotive.com. Archived from the original on July 29, 2010. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 2, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.steamlocomotive.com
  15. ↑ Claus Spreckels . Retrieved May 22, 2010.
  16. ↑ Dennis Fujimoto: 'Paulo' welcomes 2010 with free rides , The Garden Island. January 3, 2010. Archived from the original on June 20, 2016 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved May 2, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / thegardenisland.com 
  17. ↑ a b c d Anthony Sommer: A Little History in Each of 4 Engines . July 8, 2000. Retrieved May 3, 2010. 
  18. ^ The Philippine History Site: Plantation Life . Retrieved May 4, 2010.
  19. ↑ Chris Cook: Cane train running once again . May 23, 2004. Archived from the original on July 24, 2010 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved May 2, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / thegardenisland.com 
  20. ↑ a b Lester Chang: Cane train revival underway . January 25, 2004. Archived from the original on July 24, 2010 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved May 2, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / thegardenisland.com 

Coordinates: 21 ° 58 ′ 6 ″  N , 159 ° 23 ′ 50 ″  W.