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