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The Lahaina, Kaanapali and Pacific Railroad (LKPRR) was a steam-powered, 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge heritage railroad in Lāhainā, Hawaii.The LKPRR operated the Sugar Cane Train, a 6-mile (9.7 km), 40-minute trip in open-air coaches pulled by vintage steam locomotives.
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 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 ...
Jesse C. Conde and Gerald M. Best, Sugar Trains, Narrow Gauge Rails of Hawaii, 1973. Fenton, California: Glenwood Publishers; Jesse C Conde. Fowler Locomotives in the Kingdom of Hawaii. 1993. Narrow Gauge Railway Society.
At one time, Hawaiʻi had a network of railroads on each of the larger islands that helped move farm commodities as well as passengers. These railroads were for the majority 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge, although there were some 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) gauge tracks on some of the smaller islands as well as the Hawaii Consolidated Railway (HCR), which operated in standard 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm ...
Jan. 5—Kauai experienced an island-wide power outage Thursday afternoon after a transformer failed at the Port Allen Generating Station, according to a Kauai Island Utility Cooperative Facebook ...
It arrived in Honolulu on 27 August 1881 aboard The City of Glasgow from Glasgow, Scotland, and was subsequently shipped from there to Kauai. [1] On 24 September 1881, the track construction work began when Princess Lydia Pākī, later Queen Lili'uokalani hit the first spike in one of the railway sleepers. C.V. Houseman managed the track laying ...
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