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The Tren Urbano (English: Urban Train) is a 10.7-mile (17.2 km) automated rapid transit system serving the main metropolitan area of Puerto Rico, specifically the capital municipality of San Juan, and the adjacent municipalities of Guaynabo and Bayamón in northeast of the main island. The Tren Urbano consists of 16 stations operating on 10.7 ...
Jack Delano (June 1990), De San Juan a Ponce En El Tren (From San Juan to Ponce in Train), University of Puerto Rico, ISBN 0-8477-2117-5; Ponce, Puerto Rico train lines: Roger Aponte Pargas. El desarrollo histórico del tranvía eléctrico de Ponce: 1898-1927. Ponce: University of Puerto Rico, 1987. United States Army Corps of Engineers.
The Department of Transportation and Public Works of Puerto Rico operates the Tren Urbano mass transit network, serving the municipalities of San Juan, Guaynabo and Bayamón. As of 2011, the single 10.7-mile (17.2 km) line includes 16 stations.
San Juan Port - Mainly divided in three: one in Old San Juan which includes cargo/freight and cruise ships, the Pan American Port Terminal in Isla Grande section mostly for cruise ships, and Puerto Nuevo Bay, exclusively for freight/cargo ships the belong to Guaynabo City not to San Juan. It is the main port of the island.
Railroad map of Puerto Rico, 1924. Línea Férrea del Oeste; Compañía de los Ferrocarriles de Puerto Rico; American Railroad Company of Puerto Rico; Compañía de Ferrocarriles de Vía Estrecha de Mayagüez; Fajardo Development Railroad; Luce & Co. Railroad; Humacao Railroad; Northern Railroad of Porto Rico; Ponce and Guayama Railroad; Ponce ...
A law of 2 July 1867 authorised the government to build and operate a railway between the city of Porto and Pinhão. A decree of 14 June 1872 ordered studies to be carried out for the route of line, which was to initially follow the course of the Sousa River, passing through Penafiel before following the northern bank of the Douro.
San Juan is the capital of Puerto Rico, and its metropolitan area has a population of approximately 2 million, almost one half of the main island's total. It is the economic and political center of Puerto Rico, and its main international entry point. Currently a 10.7-mile (17.2 km) automated metro system "Tren Urbano" is operating and underused ...
The Train of the South — or Tren del Sur in Spanish — was a historic 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) narrow gauge heritage railroad that operated within the U.S. commonwealth of Puerto Rico in Arroyo.