I can't find any trace of old railroads using Google Earth except by the old factory in Haina. Obviously by my user name I am a train spotter and I would like to be able to take a picture of this place during my trip that is coming up soon.
The only trains in the south were narrow gauge rails used to move cut cane around and to the sugar mills. Haina, San Pedro and La Romana and Barahona. Probably a couple more.
The only rail line was Ferrocarril Central that ran from Puerto Plata out to Sanchez.
There was no train station in Santo Domingo.
HB
The influential businessman David Toribio Lantigua from Puerto Plata, has asked President Leonel Fern?ndez to restore the train connection between Puerto Plata and the second-largest town in the country, Santiago. This was in response to the announcement by the President that a better train connection would be made with the harbour town of Haina. David Toribio Lantigua says that the route between Puerto Plata and Santiago is much shorter and that.]
Yes jrhartley, I remember when Pte. Balaguer started the construction of the road that connect Santiago to Pto. Pta. going through Navarrete I'm talking about the 1970 I was a child by the time but I remember they had to remove part of the old rail road.I found this that says someone wants to restore the line, this would mean there was one there originally one would think
He will never find a clue in Santo Domingo as this never ran in the south of the Dominican Republic. "El Viaducto" constructed by Pte. Trujillo was a transportation ferrous system from Pto. Pta. / Santiago / Sanchez.
you can find some clues in P.P. and Moca city they still have the old train cabins in display as a museum piece.
JJ