invade Havana Tuesday, May 24, 2011
sugar mills in other provinces, are stored outdoors in a field
Dragones Street between Industry and Friendship in
Centro Habana municipality.
On Thursday 19 May, a group of workers, aided by a crane and a winch
, joined a section of line and, after a dangerous maneuver
, an engine fell from a truck n articles.
When asked "What is the purpose of this traffic? - Face
witnesses said they believed that the Office of the Historian of the city
seeks to restore the engines and found a museum rail;
, and some say they will soon open a section of road trips to
provide tourists with these old trains pulled by steam engines
. Currently 6
restored locomotives on display at the Arsenal
park, across from the railway terminal of Havana, another 3
and are mounted on tracks near the former Shipping "Warm Line" ,
located on the Avenida del Puerto, and also in the vicinity of a store where they sell
national handicrafts and souvenirs to tourists. Cuba
was the sixth country in the world to install the railroad,
even before his mother country Spain, and due to long
geography of our island, rail transport is considered the most economical
second load transfer after
cabotage. These locomotives that rest today as antiques remained active until the early 90's, when
cane bagasse, or wood. http://www.cubanet.org/noticias/locomotoras-antiguas-invaden-la-habana/
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