Railroads
Railroad ran in Haiti Between 1876 to 1991. Haiti is known to be the first in the Caribbean with a Railway system in the Urban of Port-au-Prince and later a Project that was supposed to run by The Company Mc Donald from Port-au-Prince to Cap-Haitian, and From Port-au-Prince to Les Cayes it did not completed. Most of the disoperation of the railroad in Haiti is due to Bankruptcy, and closure of the company who supported the construction of the railroad.
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Famous quotes containing the word railroads:
“Indeed, I believe that in the future, when we shall have seized again, as we will seize if we are true to ourselves, our own fair part of commerce upon the sea, and when we shall have again our appropriate share of South American trade, that these railroads from St. Louis, touching deep harbors on the gulf, and communicating there with lines of steamships, shall touch the ports of South America and bring their tribute to you.”
—Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)
“We noticed several other sandy tracts in our voyage; and the course of the Merrimack can be traced from the nearest mountain by its yellow sand-banks, though the river itself is for the most part invisible. Lawsuits, as we hear, have in some cases grown out of these causes. Railroads have been made through certain irritable districts, breaking their sod, and so have set the sand to blowing, till it has converted fertile farms into deserts, and the company has had to pay the damages.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at; as railroads lead to Boston or New York.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)