Ingenio Victoria Railway
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The Ingenio Victoria Railway near Jovellanos in the Matanzas province of Cuba was a standard gauge railway with a track width of 1435 mm.
Route
The Ingenio Victoria sugar factory was connected to the UHRR tracks by a standard gauge line. A short branch stretched from the sugar factory to the sugar cane fields. The sugar factory had its own locomotive.
The sugar factory was originally called Santa Amalia and had a capacity of 200,000 arrobes (2300 tons) of sugar cane per day. It is no longer in operation.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b John William Furlong Military Notes on Cuba, 1909. US Government Printing Office, 1909. p. 77.
- ^ Munson Steamship Line: The Cuba review. December 1907. p. 21.
- ^ Antiguos Ingenios y Centrales Azucareros de Cuba.