About: Northern Railroad of Guatemala     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : dbo:RailwayLine, within Data Space : dbpedia.org associated with source document(s)
QRcode icon
http://dbpedia.org/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FNorthern_Railroad_of_Guatemala

The Northern Railroad of Guatemala was a railway system that ran from Guatemala City to Puerto Barrios, the main port of Guatemala, between 1896 and 1968. The American United Fruit Company had the monopoly of the railway system through its affiliate, International Railways of Central America, along with the docks at Puerto Barrios, the banana plantations in Izabal and the cargo and passenger transport with its Great White Fleet. The system was highly efficient, but once a parallel highway was built, it could not compete and eventually was handed back to the State of Guatemala in 1968. After that, the system slowly lost its relevance, as the trucks were more profitable than railway transportation along this route. It ceased regular operations in 1996, and has remained partially abandoned si

AttributesValues
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • Ferrocarril del Norte de Guatemala (es)
  • Northern Railroad of Guatemala (en)
rdfs:comment
  • El Ferrocarril del Norte de Guatemala fue un sistema ferroviario que funcionó entre la Ciudad de Guatemala y Puerto Barrios entre 1908 y 1990. Fue emprendido originalmente por el gobierno del general Justo Rufino Barrios quien lo dejó inconcluso al morir en 1885; su sobrino, el presidente José María Reina Barrios retomó el proyecto y logró llegar desde Puerto Barrios hasta El Rancho, a sólo noventa millas de la Ciudad de Guatemala siguiendo un trazo paralelo al cauce del río Motagua. Cuando la construcción parecía que iba a concluirse, Reina Barrios organizó la Exposición Centroamericana para 1897, principalmente para mostrar a potenciales inversionistas extranjeros la infraestructura ferroviaria de Guatemala, que -de haberse concluido- habría competido con un canal interoceánico que todav (es)
  • The Northern Railroad of Guatemala was a railway system that ran from Guatemala City to Puerto Barrios, the main port of Guatemala, between 1896 and 1968. The American United Fruit Company had the monopoly of the railway system through its affiliate, International Railways of Central America, along with the docks at Puerto Barrios, the banana plantations in Izabal and the cargo and passenger transport with its Great White Fleet. The system was highly efficient, but once a parallel highway was built, it could not compete and eventually was handed back to the State of Guatemala in 1968. After that, the system slowly lost its relevance, as the trucks were more profitable than railway transportation along this route. It ceased regular operations in 1996, and has remained partially abandoned si (en)
rdfs:seeAlso
foaf:name
  • Guatemala Northern Railway (en)
name
  • Guatemala Northern Railway (en)
foaf:depiction
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Guatemala_rail_map_1925.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Riodulce4.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Riodulce6.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/UFCO2.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Relief_map_of_Guatemala.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tramoselvatico.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Roundhose_at_Guatemala_City_Station.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ferrocarril_del_norte1.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ferrocarril_del_norte4.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Quirigua2.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Quirigua5.jpg
dcterms:subject
Wikipage page ID
Wikipage revision ID
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage
Link from a Wikipage to an external page
sameAs
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
Faceted Search & Find service v1.17_git139 as of Feb 29 2024


Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 08.03.3330 as of Mar 19 2024, on Linux (x86_64-generic-linux-glibc212), Single-Server Edition (378 GB total memory, 58 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2024 OpenLink Software