Central Mercedita, Ponce

Central Mercedita
Ponce
Gauge / Trocha (ancho de vía): 26 in and meter / metro

Mercedita, Ponce, Closed 1986, 26 inch (G) and later meter gauge.  (Central Mercedita)

Longest operating railroad, over 100 years.  Tuvo el ferrocarril de más duración, sobre 100 años.

Foto Roger Aponte

National Atlas of the United States

Foto Roger Aponte

Ver / See:  Central Mercedita Unloading Facilities /
Central Mercedita – Area de descarga de caña

Colección Dave Deyo

Colección Dave Deyo

Colección Dave Deyo

Colección Dave Deyo

Central Mercedita – From map prepared and published by the Defense Mapping Agency, Topographic Center, Washington, D. C., Map information as of 1977, Scale 1:50,000

Ver / See:

Ponce – Patillas

USGS, Ponce, PR, 1945

Copeland, P. Allen.  Locomotive Rosters – Railways of the West Indies, Part IV, Puerto Rico”.  46.  Railways of the West Indies, Puerto Rico

Escudero, Jaime. “Centrales Azucareras de Puerto Rico.” Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Web. 24 Sept. 2014. <http://blogs.uprm.edu/canadeazucar/>.

Long, W. Rodney.   Porto Rico,  Railways of Central America and the West Indies . Washington: Government Printing Office, 1925. Pag. 336. Print.  (HATHI TRUST digital Library http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000970279  (11 Oct. 2013))
Copyright: Public Domain, Google-digitized.  352.

Meyers, Fred I., Publisher. The Puerto Rico Sugar Manual, including data on Dominican Republic and Haiti, 1948. New Orleans, LA: Gilmore Publishing Co., (1948).  152