Sunset On The Hershey. The final of then three daily round trips arrived at Guanabo Station on the Hershey Electric Railway as the sun was setting on Tuesday, December 30, 2014 as a two-car train of 614 and 505 (Sarriá, 1944-47) was headed east towards Matanzas. These cars were manufactured for Spanish Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya, rebuilt in the 1970s, and came to Cuba in the late 1990s, displacing the famed J.G. Brill cars. The line opened in 1917 to transport workers and goods related to the thriving sugar industry for the Hershey Corporation. While Hershey sold its interests in Cuba in the 1940s, the the name has refused to depart the island and this line is still known as "tren de Hershey". The line sustained substantial damage during Hurricane Irma in 2017 and electric operations are limited.
A continuously growing album of photos that IMHO reveal the awesome and seldom-seen beauty of the railroad world from the dimming of day to dawn's early light! From dusk to dawn, trains roll on! (I'm still finding gems of sunset-to-sunrise surprises!)
