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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 ...
The main Puerto Rico rail system was created during the late 19th century and was significantly expanded during the early 20th century due to a growing sugar cane industry in the island. [8] Its origins can be traced back to 1874, when a Spanish engineer proposed building a steam railroad line along the coast of Puerto Rico. The study for this ...
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However, when Puerto Rico changed its mostly agricultural economy to an industrialized one, and the U.S. and Puerto Rican governments started investing heavily in interstate highways and freeways, the railroad business soon collapsed. Passenger travel ceased in 1953, while the commercial train system (mostly for the sugar cane industry ...
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.
"Ponce & Guayama Railroad". Railroads of Puerto Rico / Ferrocarriles de Puerto Rico; Aponte, Roger (1984). Apuntes sobre el último ferrocarril de Puerto Rico, Ponce & Guayama Railroad. Ponce: Editorial Kider Printing. (in Spanish) Pumarada, Luis (1980). Trasfondo histórico del ferrocarril en Puerto Rico.
Sugar mill in Arroyo. 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.
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