The Snapshots in Time Collection

Sugar Plantation Cane Train with Two Steam Locomotives, Hawaii, WWII Era

Sugar Plantation Cane Train with Two Steam Locomotives, Hawaii, WWII Era

Two coupled steam locomotives haul cars piled high with freshly cut sugar cane along a plantation railway, a familiar sight to servicemen stationed in wartime Hawaii. Sugar was the backbone of the territory's economy, and plantation trains like this one were a common feature of the island landscape encountered by GIs off duty. Project: 218623