Kauai Plantation Railway
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 Diesel locomotive on the Kauai Plantation Railway
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| Route length: | Almost 4 km |
| Gauge : | 914 mm ( English 3-foot track ) |
The Kauai Plantation Railway is a 4 km long narrow gauge railway on the island of Kaua'i from Hawaii with a track width of three feet (914 mm).
history
The Kauai Plantation Railway opened in January 2007 as the first railroad built in Hawaii in 100 years. It runs on an eight-shaped circuit on the Kilohana plantation of Gaylord Parke Wilcox (1881-1970), the manager of the Grove Farm Plantation. His sister Mabel Wilcox, heiress of the Wilcox estate, set up the Grove Farm Museum on their nearby country estate.
Railway line
The route was designed by Boone Morrison, an architect who specializes in historical restoration. The train passes fields that are leased to farmers to grow taro , pineapple , papaya , rambutan , tobacco and coffee as well as hardwood trees. The rails were previously installed on the Soo Line Railroad in North Dakota . The 31,680 sleeper nails were hammered in by hand with a 5 kg sledgehammer. The narrow-gauge railways laid on Kauai until then had a smaller gauge of 2 feet (610 mm) or 2 feet 6 inches (762 mm).
Rail vehicles
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There are six each 11 m long cars on historical chassis of 1941 by the US Navy in Pearl Harbor built flat wagons in the post-war period until the Oahu Railway and Land Company in Hawaii and later in the White Pass and Yukon Route in Alaska were used . So far they have been pulled by two diesel locomotives, while two Baldwin 0-6-2 steam locomotives, which were formerly used by the Honolulu Plantation Corporation on the island of Oahu and later in the Philippines , are undergoing a time-consuming general overhaul. There is a 1948 General Electric two-axle diesel-electric locomotive and a backup Whitcomb diesel-mechanical locomotive.
Web links
- www.kauaiplantationrailway.com (Official Website)
- www.kilohanakauai.com (Official Website)
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Frommer's Review - Kauai Plantation Railway , New York Times. Retrieved May 4, 2010.
- ^ Robert Nilsen: Kauai , 6th Edition, Avalon Travel Publishing, 2006, ISBN 1-56691-956-8 .
- ↑ a b Cheryl Chee Tsutsumi: Nostalgic train trip chugs into Kauai's past , Star Bulletin. Retrieved May 2, 2010.
- ↑ a b c d David Lustig: More Than Pistons and Papayas . In: Kalmbach Publishing (Ed.): Trains Magazine . 68, No. 5, Wisconsin, USA, May 2008, ISSN 0041-0934 , pp. 36-39.
- ↑ Kauai Trains . Retrieved May 2, 2010.
- ^ Kilauea, Kauai: A Community Rich In History . Kong Lung Historic Market Center. Archived from the original on July 25, 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.
- ^ Kauai Railroad History.
Coordinates: 21 ° 58 ′ 16 " N , 159 ° 23 ′ 32.4" W.