1. Complete Decauville Rail System wheel, Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, 2015
- Description:
- Two surviving Decauville Rail System wheels, embossed with “Decauville Aine Petit-Bourg IS80,” and found near the ingenio site, are today in the collection of a hotel in Puerto Baquerizo Moreno. Traction-powered rail systems designed for transporting harvested intact cane stalks from the fields employed long platform trucks with eight wheels on 20 inch gauge tracks of 14 lb rails with fixed sleepers. Each cart with iron baskets held up to 1300 lbs and was pulled by oxen tethered with long yolks on each side of the track.
- Subjects:
- Hacienda El Progreso; ingenio
- Subjects Facet:
- San Cristóbal Island (Galapagos Islands); Sugar Factories; Sugar Machinery; Transportation
- Creator:
- Dr. Peter W. Stahl
- Publisher:
- University of Victoria Libraries
- Contributors:
- Dr. Peter Stahl
- Date:
- 2015
- Date searchable:
- 2015
- Date searchable:
- 2015-7-14
- Genre:
- Digital image
- Genre Facet:
- Digital image
- Format:
- image
- Identifier:
- Fig. 4.15
- Rights:
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
- Location(s):
- El Progreso, (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands
- Location(s) Facet:
- El Progreso, (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands
- Date Digitized:
- 2015