This is a steam-powered heritage railway in Lahaina, Hawaii which since 1970 has run the Sugar Cane Train, a 10 km (6-mile), 40-minute trip, connecting Lahaina with Puukolii, stopping briefly at Kaanapali.
The 3ft gauge line follows a stretch of historic right-of-way originally constructed to haul sugar cane from the sugar plantation fields in Kāʻanapali to the Pioneer Mill in Lahaina. At one time, the island had over 320 km (200 miles) of trackage connecting the sugar plantations with the mills.
The loco in this pic, Anaka, is a 2-4-0 built by H.K. Porter, Inc of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in February 1943 for the Carbon Limestone Company, although it has been much modified as it was originally a 0-4-0 saddle tank. The LKPRR removed the saddle tanks, added a tender to hold water and fuel, added a larger smokestack, a wooden cab and larger headlight that resembles oil lamps once found on steam locomotives.
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