Sunday, October 19, 2014

Hershey electric interurban, Cuba


This standard gauge single track railway is the only surviving electric line in Cuba and runs from the suburbs of Havana to the town of Matanzas, approximately 92 km (57 miles) to the east. There are a number of intermediate halts and a station and depot at the town of Camilo Cienfuegos, better known by its pre-1959 revolution name of Hershey. The railway was built by the Hershey Company of the US to transport sugar to the port of Havana. The original interurban cars were bought from the J. G. Brill Company, but these were replaced by Spanish cars from the Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya in the 1990s.
Pic from this blog, which has over 200 Cuban railway pics

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