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Bahon
Bahon (Bawon), sometimes called Bohon, is a commune in Grande-Rivière-du-Nord Arrondissement in the Nord, department of Haiti.
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Cap-Haïtien
Cap-Haïtien (Kap Ayisyen; Cape Haitian) often referred to as Le Cap or Au Cap, is a commune of about 190,000 people on the north coast of Haiti and capital of the department of Nord.
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Car
A car (or automobile) is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transportation.
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Coffee
Coffee is a brewed drink prepared from roasted coffee beans, which are the seeds of berries from the Coffea plant.
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Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic (República Dominicana) is a sovereign state located in the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region.
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Georg Krauß
Georg Krauß, from 1905 Ritter von Krauß (25 December 1826 – 5 November 1906) was a German industrialist and the founder of the Krauss Locomotive Works (Locomotivfabrik Krauß & Comp.) in Munich, Germany and Linz, Upper Austria.
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H.K. Porter, Inc.
H.K. Porter, Inc. (Porter) manufactured light-duty railroad locomotives in the US, starting in 1866.
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Haiti
Haiti (Haïti; Ayiti), officially the Republic of Haiti and formerly called Hayti, is a sovereign state located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea.
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Haitian American Sugar Company
Haitian American Sugar Company, S.A. (HASCO) was an American business venture which sought to produce and sell sugar and other goods in Haiti and the United States.
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History of Haiti
The recorded written history of Haiti began on 5 December 1492 when the European navigator Christopher Columbus happened upon a large island in the region of the western Atlantic Ocean that later came to be known as the Caribbean.
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History of rail transport
The history of rail transport began in 6th century BC in Ancient Greece.
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History of rail transport in Haiti
There are currently no functioning railways in Haiti and has never had any rail connections with the neighbouring Dominican Republic.
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Industrial railway
An industrial railway is a type of railway (usually private) that is not available for public transportation and is used exclusively to serve a particular industrial, logistics or a military site.
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J. G. Brill Company
The J.G. Brill Company manufactured trams/streetcars (also, US: trolleys, trolley cars)Young, Andrew D. (1997).
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Jackson and Sharp Company
Jackson and Sharp Company was an American railroad car manufacturer and shipbuilder in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Léogâne
Léogâne (Leyogàn) is one of the coastal communes in Haiti.
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Narrow-gauge railway
A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than the standard.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.
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Plantation
A plantation is a large-scale farm that specializes in cash crops.
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Port-au-Prince
Port-au-Prince (Pòtoprens) is the capital and most populous city of Haiti.
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Rail transport
Rail transport is a means of transferring of passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, also known as tracks.
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Railcar
A railcar, in British English and Australian English, is a self-propelled railway vehicle designed to transport passengers.
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Saint-Marc
Saint-Marc (Sen Mak) is a commune in western Haiti in Artibonite.
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Steam locomotive
A steam locomotive is a type of railway locomotive that produces its pulling power through a steam engine.
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Sugar
Sugar is the generic name for sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food.
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Tirésias Simon Sam
Paul Tirésias Augustin Simon Sam (1835–1916) was the President of Haiti from 31 March 1896 to 12 May 1902.
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Tram
A tram (also tramcar; and in North America streetcar, trolley or trolley car) is a rail vehicle which runs on tramway tracks along public urban streets, and also sometimes on a segregated right of way.
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Tubize
Tubize (Tubeke) is a Walloon municipality located in the Belgian province of Walloon Brabant.
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Verrettes
Verrettes (Vèrèt) is a commune in the Saint-Marc Arrondissement, in the Artibonite department of Haiti.
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0-4-0
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents one of the simplest possible types, that with two axles and four coupled wheels, all of which are driven.
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2-6-0
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels on one axle, usually in a leading truck, six powered and coupled driving wheels on three axles and no trailing wheels.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_rail_transport_in_Haiti
