| SUBSCRIPTIONS |
|
|
|
DTCNews Subscription
|
|
|
 |
|
| We accept |
|
 |
|
 |
|
| Vacacionar Travel S.A. use Credit du Nord as a guarantee of absolute security in credit card transactions. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
Railroad Relics Attract Visitors to Cuba |
|
|
Monday, November 26, 2007
Havana.- Railroad services in Cuba were inaugurated 170 years ago, and some of its relics, which are still operational, attract national and foreign tourists.
Steam locomotives are still operational at Lenin Park, in the outskirts of Havana, where they pull the local train on a 10-km circuit.
Park officials said visitors are interested in that recreational option that involves decades-old locomotives.
Foreign visitors express surprise when they see those museum pieces, like the locomotive La Junta, which operated on the first railroad segment between Havana and Matanzas.
In addition, visitors to Lenin Park can visit the Steam Museum, where they can see a 19th-century locomotive on its original rails and engine seating.
The experts recalled that many of those locomotives were used to carry sugarcane from the fields to the sugar mills.
Cuba became the first Latin American country to inaugurate railroad services between Havana and Bejucal on November 19, 1837.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|