ARCHIVO HISTORICO Y. FOTOGRAFICO DE PUERTO Rico. CPB Set 2 E. H. B. #518 – Santurce and Puerta de Tierra from San Cristobal Castle, Puerto Rico. – Unused. Eku 12-1-1907. N. p., 2009. Flickr. Web. 3 May 2014. https://www.flickr.com/photos/fredandrebecca/3577621518/in/photostream/. Used with permission. [Rodríguez Archives (José Luis and José Alfredo Rodríguez). Please see: Archivo Histórico y Fotográfico de Puerto Rico – Colección Rodríguez , and Archivo Histórico Y Fotográfico De Puerto Rico’s photostream .]
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Rector, C.H. The Story of Beautiful Porto Rico. Chicago, Illinois: Laird & Lee, 1898. Print./ Rector, Charles H?: Internet Archive.” N. p., n.d. Page 19. Web. 17 Apr. 2014. http://www.archive.org/details/storyofbeautiful00rect
I believe these pictures are of the first station in Old San Juan of the Ferrocarriles de Puerto Rico which would become known as the American Railroad. The tracks on the left side of the buildings are of the Ubarri steam tram, which later became the electric trolley of San Juan.
Yo creo que esta era la primera estación en el Viejo San Juan de Ferrocarriles de Puerto Rico que se conocería como la American Railroad. La vía a la izquierda de la estructura pertenece al tranvía de Ubarri que más tarde pasó a ser el tranvía eléctrico de San Juan.
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New Station / Estación Nueva – Estación de San Juan / San Juan Station
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Más enlaces / More links from Rodríguez Archives (José Luis and José Alfredo Rodríguez). Please see: Archivo Histórico y Fotográfico de Puerto Rico – Colección Rodríguez , and Archivo Histórico Y Fotográfico De Puerto Rico’s photostream :
https://www.flickr.com/photos/fredandrebecca/4570380522/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/fredandrebecca/5417894720/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/fredandrebecca/4677825074
https://www.flickr.com/photos/fredandrebecca/4677206905/
Thanks Dave.
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Emails from Dave Deyo, May 4, 2014:
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I agree. Both photos are of the first San Juan station under CFdePR. As I commented once before, somewhere in my collection I have a photo taken where this building appears in the background and may have served as an office or freight house for a brief period of time after the new station was built.
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….I agree with you on the location of the Ubarri track behind the CFdePR station. Apparently the SJL&TCo. changed the right of way some there, as in photos it rises up sooner than in the drawing, to follow the street. When the new station was being built for the ARR, they staged trains out of the old Ubarri yard by the station, as is shown in one of the postcards……