Koolau Railway
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The Koolau Railway is a former railway company in Hawaii ( United States ). It was founded in August 1905. The plan was initially to build a stretch from Kahuku on the northeast coast of the island of Oahu along the east coast to Kaneohe and further over the Koolau Mountains to Honolulu .
The first section from Kahuku to Kahana (17 kilometers) went into operation in June 1907. The track width was three feet (914 mm). In Kahuku there was a connection to the Oahu Railway and Land Company , the second and larger railway company on the island. The extension of the route was not carried out for cost reasons. In 1931, a plantation in Kahuku bought the railway, stopped passenger traffic, dissolved the railway company and converted the line into a private connecting railway. In 1954 the company was closed.
The fleet consisted of two steam locomotives that had been built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works , 21 freight cars and two passenger cars.
Sources and further information
- Individual evidence
- ↑ Mike Walker: Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America. Pacific Northwest. SPV-Verlag, Dunkirk (GB), 1998.
- literature
- 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