The Railways of Jamaica

I have just finished reading a book about the railways of Jamaica which prompted a little research on-line. Jamaica still intends to reopen its railways system.

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2020/10/08/the-railways-of-jamaica

 

But there is indeed an operating railroad system in Jamaica ! Not public transportation of freight or passengers, but at least one industrial railroad that carries iron ore... Interrestingly enough it's US mainland style equipped, as one can see SD38-2s hauling iron ore gondolas..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9NNKKVF7zI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vOrCZz ... _rel_pause

(indeed the locomotives look like former SD40-2s that lost central hood fan, probably with the loss of their turbochargers)

Dom

 

Yes, Dom, there is, but is a very significantly reduced network.

 

Another visit to the railways of Jamaica, courtesy, this time, of H.G. Forsythe in the September 1963 edition of the Railway Magazine. .....

https://rogerfarnworth.com/2021/05/28/the-railways-of-jamaica-again

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I have been reading historic copies of the Railway Magazine again. This time it was a bound copy of the magazines from 1963. ........ I came across an article about the Railways of Jamaica in the September 1963 edition which was written by H. G. Forsythe.

 

Roger, you have a knack for finding these obscure railways in obscure places. Your scholarship is engaging and the reading informative; I see and read things that have heretofore never crossed my mind, and thank you for that.

I am rather impressed that a railway can take a company and increase every parameter from tonnage hauled to increasing wages in six years. So sad that it declined after this robust turn around. I imagine the lorry a forbidding competitor.

Never knew Jamaica to be an exporter of aluminum and iron.

 

Thank you.