Passenger railroads

Honolulu Rail Transit The Honolulu Rail Transit Project (also known as the Honolulu High-Capacity Transit Corridor Project) is a light metro system under construction in Honolulu County, Hawaii, U.S. The mostly elevated system features design elements from both heav ...

(HRT, ''currently undergoing testing, first segment scheduled to open July 2023'')

Heritage and Scenic Railroads

Hawaiian Railway Society The Hawaiian Railway Society is a narrow gauge heritage railroad and railroad museum in Ewa, Hawaii, USA, on the island of Oahu. It uses the trackbed of the defunct Oahu Railway and Land Company. It is currently the only operating railroad mu ...

* Kauai Plantation Railway *

Lahaina, Kaanapali and Pacific Railroad The Lahaina, Kaanapali and Pacific Railroad (LKPRR) is a steam-powered, narrow gauge heritage railroad in Lāhainā, Hawaii. The LKPRR operated the Sugar Cane Train, a , 40-minute trip in open-air coaches pulled by vintage steam locomotives. ...

Defunct railroads

* Ahukini Terminal and Railway Company * Hawaii Railway *

Hawaii Consolidated Railway The Hawaii Consolidated Railway (HCR), originally named the Hilo Railroad Company, was a standard gauge common carrier railroad that served much of the east coast of the island of Hawaii (The Big Island) from 1899 until 1946, when a tsunami des ...

* Hawaiian Railroad * Hilo Railroad * Kahului Railroad * Kauai Railway * Koolau Railway *

Oahu Railway and Land Company The Oahu Railway and Land Company, or OR&L, was a narrow gauge common carrier railway that served much of the Hawaiian island of Oahu, and was the largest narrow gauge class one common carrier in the U.S, until its dissolution in 1947. Origin T ...

* West Hawaii Railway

Electric

Honolulu Rapid Transit and Land Company Honolulu (; ) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Hawaii, which is in the Pacific Ocean. It is an Unincorporated area, unincorporated county seat of the Consolidated city-county, consolidated City and County of H ...

Industrial Rail Operations

Island of Hawaii

* Hamakua Mill Company * Kukaiau Plantation Company * Hawaii Agricultural Company * Honokaa Sugar Company * Pacific Sugar Mill Company * Hutchinson Sugar Plantation Company * Kaiwiki Sugar Company, Ltd * Kohala Sugar Company *

Kona Sugar Company Kona or KONA may refer to: People *Kona (surname) * Dilshad Nahar Kona, Bangladeshi singer also known as Kona Television * ''Kona'' (TV series), a Kenyan telenovela that premiered in 2013 Locations * Kona, Kentucky * Kona, North Carolina * K ...

* Olaa Sugar Company * Puna Sugar Company * Hawaiian Mahogany Lumber Company * Laupahohoe Sugar Company * Paauhau Sugar Plantation Company * Puako Plantation * Waiakea Mill Company

Island of Kauai

* Grove Farm Company * Hawaiian Sugar Company *

Kekaha Sugar Company Kekaha (literally, "the place" in Hawaiian) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kauai County, Hawaii, United States. The population was 3,715 at the 2020 census, up from 3,175 at the 2000 census. History For most of the 20th century, the K ...

* Kilauea Sugar Plantation Company * Koloa Sugar Company * The Lihue Plantation Company * Hanamauku Sugar Plantation * Ahukini Terminal and Railway Company (absorbed by the Lihue Plantation) * McBryde Sugar Company * Eleele Plantation * Kauai Railway Company ( McBryde Sugar Company sponsored) * Waimea Sugar Mill Company

Island of Lanai

* Maunalei Sugar Company

Island of Maui

* Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company * Kihei Plantation Company * Maui Agricultural Company * Paia Plantation * Kaeleku Sugar Company * Hana Plantation Company * Kipahulu Sugar Company * Kaeleku Sugar Company * Pioneer Mill Company * Olowalu Sugar Company * Wailuku Sugar Company

Island of Molokai

* American Sugar Company

Island of Oahu

* Ewa Plantation Company * Heeia Agricultural Company * Kahuku Plantation Company * Koolau Railway Company (bought out by Kahuku Plantation Company) * Hibiscus & Heliconia Short Line Railroad * Oahu Sugar Company * Honolulu Plantation Company * Waiahole Water Company * Waialua Agricultural Company * Waianae Sugar Company * Waimanalo Sugar Company

References

* *John B. Hungerford, ''Hawaiian Railroads'', 1963. Reseda, California: Hungerford Press *Jesse C. Conde and Gerald M. Best, ''Sugar Trains, Narrow Gauge Rails of Hawaii'', 1973. Fenton, California: Glenwood Publishers {{Hawaii

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Railroads Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a prep ...