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Rail transport in Puerto Rico, the Glossary

Rail transport in Puerto Rico currently consists of a passenger metro system in the island's metropolitan area of San Juan.^[1]

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1891 establishments in Puerto Rico
Heritage railroads in Puerto Rico
Narrow gauge railroads in Puerto Rico
Railway accidents in 1944
Transport disasters in Puerto Rico

Aguadilla, Puerto Rico

Aguadilla, founded in 1775 by Luis de Córdova, is a city and municipality located in the northwestern tip of Puerto Rico, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, north of Aguada, and Moca and west of Isabela.

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American Railroad Company

The American Railroad Company (ARR) owned and operated a railroad in Puerto Rico. Rail transport in Puerto Rico and American Railroad Company are narrow gauge railroads in Puerto Rico.

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Arecibo, Puerto Rico

Arecibo is a city and municipality on the northern coast of Puerto Rico, on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, located north of Utuado and Ciales; east of Hatillo; and west of Barceloneta and Florida.

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Arroyo, Puerto Rico

Arroyo is a town and municipality located along the southern coast of Puerto Rico and bordered by the Caribbean Sea, east of the municipality of Guayama and northwest of the municipality of Patillas.

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Bus

A bus (contracted from omnibus, with variants multibus, motorbus, autobus, etc.) is a road vehicle that carries significantly more passengers than an average car or van, but less than the average rail transport.

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Business cycle

Business cycles are intervals of general expansion followed by recession in economic performance.

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Calle de la Candelaria

Calle de la Candelaria (Candelaria Street, formerly McKinley Street) is the parallel street aside the Calle Méndez Vigo in the western Puerto Rico municipality of Mayagüez.

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Calle Méndez Vigo (Mayagüez)

Calle Méndez Vigo (Mendez Vigo Street) is a major thoroughfare in the western Puerto Rico municipality of Mayagüez with a length of about 1.22 miles (2 km).

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Camuy, Puerto Rico

Camuy is a town and municipality of Puerto Rico, bordering the Atlantic Ocean, north of Lares and San Sebastián; east of Quebradillas; and west of Hatillo.

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Car float

A railroad car float or rail barge is a specialised form of lighter with railway tracks mounted on its deck used to move rolling stock across water obstacles, or to locations they could not otherwise go.

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Carolina, Puerto Rico

Carolina is a city and municipality located on the northeast coast of Puerto Rico.

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Chemex Coffeemaker

The Chemex Coffeemaker is a manual pour-over style glass coffeemaker, invented by Peter Schlumbohm in 1941, manufactured by the Chemex Corporation in Chicopee, Massachusetts.

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Condado (Santurce)

Condado is an oceanfront, tree-lined, pedestrian-oriented upper middle to upper class community in Santurce.

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Controlled-access highway

A controlled-access highway is a type of highway that has been designed for high-speed vehicular traffic, with all traffic flow—ingress and egress—regulated.

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Derailment

In rail transport, a derailment is a type of train wreck that occurs when a rail vehicle such as a train comes off its rails.

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Direct current

Direct current (DC) is one-directional flow of electric charge.

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El Mundo (Puerto Rico)

El Mundo is a Puerto Rican newspaper founded in 1919 by Romualdo Real.

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El Nuevo Día

El Nuevo Día (English: The New Day) is the newspaper with the largest circulation in Puerto Rico.

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EMD SW1

The EMD SW1 is a diesel-electric switcher locomotive built by General Motors' Electro-Motive Corporation (later Division) between December 1938 and November 1953.

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EMD SW9

The EMD SW9 is a model of diesel switcher locomotives built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between November 1950 and December 1953.

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Google Maps

Google Maps is a web mapping platform and consumer application offered by Google.

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Guajataca Tunnel

Guajataca Tunnel is a railroad tunnel that connected the town of Isabela and Quebradillas, Puerto Rico.

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Guaynabo, Puerto Rico

Guaynabo is a city, suburb of San Juan and municipality in the northern part of Puerto Rico, located in the northern coast of the island, north of Aguas Buenas, south of Cataño, east of Bayamón, and west of San Juan.

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Hacienda Mercedita

Hacienda Mercedita was a sugarcane plantation in Ponce, Puerto Rico, founded in 1861, by Juan Serrallés Colón.

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Heritage railway

A heritage railway or heritage railroad (U.S. usage) is a railway operated as living history to re-create or preserve railway scenes of the past.

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Highway

A highway is any public or private road or other public way on land.

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Hormigueros, Puerto Rico

Hormigueros is a town and municipality of Puerto Rico located in the western region of the island, northeast of Cabo Rojo; northwest of San Germán; and south of Mayagüez.

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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 military site.

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Isabela, Puerto Rico

Isabela is a town and municipality of Puerto Rico located in the north-western region of the island, north of San Sebastián; west of Quebradillas; and east of Aguadilla and Moca.

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Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico

The Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico (Asamblea Legislativa de Puerto Rico) is the territorial legislature of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, responsible for the legislative branch of the government of Puerto Rico.

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List of common carrier freight railroads in the United States

About 700 railroads operate common carrier freight service in the United States.

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List of Puerto Rico railroads

The following is a list of railroads operating in the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

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List of tram systems by gauge and electrification

The following is a list of tram/streetcar (including heritage trams/heritage streetcars), or light rail systems with their track length, track gauge, electrification system.

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Locomotive

A locomotive or engine is a rail transport vehicle that provides the motive power for a train.

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Manatí, Puerto Rico

Manatí is a city and municipality of Puerto Rico on the northern coast, north of Morovis and Ciales; east of Florida and Barceloneta; and west of Vega Baja.

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Mayagüez, Puerto Rico

Mayagüez is the ninth-largest municipality in Puerto Rico.

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Metre-gauge railway

Metre-gauge railways (US: meter-gauge railways) are narrow-gauge railways with track gauge of or 1 metre.

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Mobile, Alabama

Mobile is a city and the county seat of Mobile County, Alabama, United States.

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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.

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National Park Service

The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government, within the U.S. Department of the Interior.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value".

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Old San Juan

Old San Juan (Viejo San Juan) is a historic district located at the "northwest triangle" of the islet of San Juan in San Juan.

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Operation Bootstrap

Operation Bootstrap (Operación Manos a la Obra) is the name given to a series of projects which transformed the economy of Puerto Rico into an industrial and developed one.

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Plena

Plena is a genre of music and dance native to Puerto Rico.

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Plymouth Locomotive Works

Plymouth Locomotive Works was a US builder of small railroad locomotives.

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Ponce, Puerto Rico

Ponce is a city and a municipality on the southern coast of Puerto Rico.

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Port of Mobile

The Port of Mobile is a deep-water port in Mobile, Alabama, United States.

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Puente Blanco

The Puente Blanco (White Bridge) is a historic railway bridge that spans hundred and fifty feet deep and thirty six metres wide gorge across the Quebrada Mala Canyon, near Quebradillas, Puerto Rico.

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The Autoridad Metropolitana de Autobuses (AMA, English: Puerto Rico Metropolitan Bus Authority) is a government-owned corporation and public transport bus service based in the San Juan metropolitan area.

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Puerto Rico Professional College of Engineers and Land Surveyors

The Professional College of Engineers and Land Surveyors of Puerto Rico —Colegio de Ingenieros y Agrimensores de Puerto Rico (CIAPR)— is the association mandated by law that groups all professionals that call, present, or represent themselves as "engineers" or "land surveyors" in Puerto Rico.

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Quebradillas, Puerto Rico

Quebradillas is a town and municipality of the island of Puerto Rico located in the northern shore bordering the Atlantic Ocean, north of San Sebastián; east of Isabela; and west of Camuy.

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Rafael Cordero Santiago Port of the Americas

The Rafael Cordero Santiago Port of the Americas Puerto de las Américas Rafael Cordero Santiago (PLA) is a megaport currently under construction in Ponce, Puerto Rico.

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Rail transport

Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel rails.

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Rail transportation in the United States

Rail transportation in the United States consists primarily of freight shipments along a well integrated network of standard gauge private freight railroads that also extend into Canada and Mexico.

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Rail yard

A rail yard, railway yard, railroad yard (US) or simply yard, is a series of tracks in a rail network for storing, sorting, or loading and unloading rail vehicles and locomotives.

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Railway electrification

Railway electrification is the use of electric power for the propulsion of rail transport.

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Rapid transit

Rapid transit or mass rapid transit (MRT), commonly referred to as metro, is a type of high-capacity public transport that is generally built in urban areas.

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Río Piedras, Puerto Rico

Río Piedras is a populous district of San Juan, and former town and municipality of Puerto Rico, which was merged with the municipality of San Juan in 1951.

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Right of way

A right of way (also right-of-way) is a transportation corridor along which people, animals, vehicles, watercraft, or utility lines travel, or the legal status that gives them the right to do so.

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San Juan, Puerto Rico

San Juan (Spanish for "Saint John") is the capital city and most populous municipality in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States.

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San Juan-Caguas Rail

The San Juan-Caguas Rail project, named NOVOTRÉN, was a planned rail transit link between the Puerto Rican cities of San Juan and Caguas through a "regional rail network".

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Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Santurce (from the Basque Santurtzi which means Saint George) is a barrio of San Juan.

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A shareholder (in the United States often referred to as stockholder) of corporate stock refers to an individual or legal entity (such as another corporation, a body politic, a trust or partnership) that is registered by the corporation as the legal owner of shares of the share capital of a public or private corporation.

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Steam locomotive

A steam locomotive is a locomotive that provides the force to move itself and other vehicles by means of the expansion of steam.

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Sugarcane

Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of tall, perennial grass (in the genus Saccharum, tribe Andropogoneae) that is used for sugar production.

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Switcher locomotive

A switcher locomotive (American English), shunter locomotive (British English), or shifter locomotive (Pennsylvania Railroad terminology) is a locomotive used for maneuvering railway vehicles over short distances.

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Tank car

A tank car (International Union of Railways (UIC): tank wagon) or tanker is a type of railroad car (UIC: railway car) or rolling stock designed to transport liquid and gaseous commodities.

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Toronto

Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Train driver

A train driver is a person who operates a train, railcar, or other rail transport vehicle.

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Train ferry

A train ferry is a ship (ferry) designed to carry railway vehicles.

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Tram

A tram (also known as a streetcar or trolley in the United States and Canada) is a type of urban rail transit consisting of either individual railcars or self-propelled multiple unit trains that run on tramway tracks on urban public streets; some include segments on segregated right-of-way.

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Transportation in Puerto Rico

Transportation in Puerto Rico includes a system of roads, highways, freeways, airports, ports and harbors, and railway systems, serving a population of approximately 4 million year-round.

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University of Puerto Rico

The University of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Universidad de Puerto Rico), often shortened to UPR, is the main public university system in the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

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Vega Baja, Puerto Rico

Vega Baja is a town and municipality located on the coast of north central Puerto Rico.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Yauco, Puerto Rico

Yauco is a town and municipality in southern Puerto Rico.

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1928 Okeechobee hurricane

The Okeechobee hurricane of 1928, also known as the San Felipe Segundo hurricane, was one of the deadliest hurricanes in the recorded history of the North Atlantic basin, and the fourth deadliest hurricane in the United States, only behind the 1900 Galveston hurricane, 1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, and Hurricane Maria.

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1932 Atlantic hurricane season

The 1932 Atlantic hurricane season featured several powerful storms, including the Cuba hurricane, which remains the deadliest tropical cyclone in the history of Cuba and among the most intense to strike the island nation.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transport_in_Puerto_Rico

Also known as El Parque del Tren, History of rail transport in Puerto Rico, Port of Ponce Railroad, Rail transport of Puerto Rico, Railroads in Puerto Rico, Railways in Puerto Rico, San Juan Tramway, Trains in puerto rico, Trolley de San Juan.

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Rail transport in Puerto Rico, the Glossary

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See also

1891 establishments in Puerto Rico

Heritage railroads in Puerto Rico

Narrow gauge railroads in Puerto Rico

Railway accidents in 1944

Transport disasters in Puerto Rico

References