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In 1929, the Havana Special was the premier train, providing year-round coach and sleeping car service between New York and Key West, daily except Sundays, with connecting ferry service beyond to the Cuban capital.
The Tren Blindado (transl. Armoured train) is a national monument, memorial park, and museum [1] of the Cuban Revolution, located in the city of Santa Clara, Cuba.It was created by the Cuban sculptor José Delarra on the site of and in memory of the capture of an armoured train on 29 December 1958, during the Battle of Santa Clara.
The railway station of Villanueva, c. 1900 Villanueva Railway. Map shows train path down present day Avenida Zanja. The Havana Capitol building was built on land that was a railroad terminal and used to belong to the Villanueva Railway. The project began in April 1926, during the Gerardo Machado administration.
The Museum of the Revolution (Spanish: Museo de la Revolución) is located in the Old Havana section of Havana, Cuba, in what was the presidential palace of all Cuban presidents from Mario García Menocal to Fulgencio Batista. The building became the Museum of the Revolution during the years following the Cuban Revolution.
The 1929 stock market crash wasn’t just a financial collapse; it was the moment the Roaring Twenties came to a screeching halt. In a matter of days, fortunes were wiped out, optimism turned to ...
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad: Champaign, Havana and Western Railway: IC: 1879 1880 Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railway: Champaign and Southeastern Railway: WAB: 1880 1903 Wabash Railroad: Charleston, Neoga and St. Louis Railroad: NKP: 1880 1881 Toledo, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad: Chesapeake and Ohio Railway: C&O, CO C&O 1921 ...
Catalina de Laza mausoleum in the Cristobal Colón Cemetery, Havana; Cine La Edad de Oro (formerly Cine Santa Catalina), Mendoza, Havana, 1946; Cine Metropolitan, Ampliación de Almendares, Havana, 1949; Cine Moderno, Jesus del Monte, Havana, 1929; former Cine Reina, Havana; Cine-Teatro América (in the Rodriquez Vazquez building) Habana Vieja ...
The Havana Suburban Railway (Spanish: Red del ferrocarril suburbano de La Habana) is a passenger suburban rail network serving the city of Havana, capital of Cuba, and its suburbs. Owned by the national company Ferrocarriles de Cuba , it represents the only suburban rail system of the Caribbean island.