Kauai Railway
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 Remains of the Kauai Railway at the Koloa Mill
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| Route length: | 30 km | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 762 mm ( narrow gauge ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Kauai Railway is a former railway company in Hawaii ( United States ). Established in 1906, it operated a twenty-five- mile (2½-foot) gauge public railroad from Port Allen to Koloa and Kalaheo on the south coast of Kauai . It had no connection to the other same gauge railway on the island, the Ahukini Terminal and Railway . Except during the First World War , no passengers were carried on the train.
history
The railway was opened in 1907. In 1933 the Kauai Railway Company was dissolved and some parts of the railway were sold to adjacent plantations. The remainder was acquired in 1936 by the Kauai Terminal Company . The shutdown date is unknown, the last trains probably left around 1947. The company continues today as the Kauai Commercial Company .
literature
- Mike Walker: Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America. Pacific Northwest. SPV-Verlag, Dunkirk (GB), 1998.
- George H. Drury: Hawaiian Railroads , in: William D. Middleton, George M. Smerk, Roberta L. Diehl (Eds.): Encyclopedia of North American Railroads. Indiana University Press, Bloomington IN / Indianapolis IN 2007. ISBN 978-0-253-34916-3
- George W. Hilton: American Narrow Gauge Railroads. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto CA 1990. ISBN 0-8047-2369-9
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hilton 1990, p. 379.