Hawaiian Agricultural Company Railroad

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The Hawaiian Agricultural Company Railroad is a former railway company in Hawaii ( United States ). The railway, located in the south of the island of Hawaii , was opened in 1880 as a non-public plantation railway by the Hawaiian Agricultural Company and connected a sugar cane plantation near Pahala with the port in Punaluu . The approximately ten kilometer long route initially had a gauge of two feet (610 mm), but was re-gauged to three feet (914 mm) in 1903. From 1893 there was also passenger traffic for tourists, but the railway remained closed to the public.

The southernmost railroad in Hawaii was shut down and dismantled to about one and a half kilometers at the port near Punaluu in 1929. Trains ran in the port area until 1945.

Sources and further information

  • George W. Hilton: American Narrow Gauge Railroads. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto CA 1990. ISBN 0-8047-2369-9