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The Kauai Plantation Railway is a heritage railroad on the island of Kauai in Hawaii.Built in 2006 and opened in January 2007, the railroad operates on a 2.5-mile (4 km) long track within the Kilohana Plantation and offers passenger rides around the plantation, pulled by a 1940s diesel locomotive.
The Kauai Railway is a former narrow gauge railway company in Hawaii, United States. It was created 1906 and operated a 30-kilometre (19 mi) long railroad line with 2 ft 6 in ( 762 mm ) narrow gauge track from Port Allen , to Koloa and Kalaheo on the south coast of the island of Kauai .
The Kauai Plantation Railway opened for business in January 2007 as “the first new railroad to be built in Hawaii in 100 years.” [29] Indirectly, both the Grove Farm and Kauai Plantation heritage railways share common ancestry. Kauai Plantation Railway offers a tour of Kilohana, the former estate of Gaylord Parke Wilcox (1881–1970 ...
Hilton, George W. (1990). American Narrow Gauge Railroads.Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-2369-9.; John B. Hungerford, Hawaiian Railroads ...
The Kilauea Sugar Plantation imported in 1881 a steam locomotive and the material needed for constructing the track. John Fowler & Co., based in Leeds, England, delivered a complete package of 4,248 railway sleepers, rails, bends and switches, hardware and other products, as well as several tons of coal, in addition to the Fowler narrow gauge steam locomotive with works No 4085.
On Kauai, two narrow-gauge railroads still operate. The 3 foot railroad, the Kauai Plantation Railway operates on a 3-mile loop through the Kilohana Estate and Plantation. The second narrow-gauge railroad on Kauai is a 30-inch railway, the Grove Farm Sugar Plantation Museum. They operate many different locomotives, from steam to diesel, on a ...
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