Oahu Railway Early History - Jeff Livingston Index in Description

Jeff Livingston is a historian and author with the Oahu Railway Society.
His talk to eaH centered on the early start and development of the Oahu Railway and Land Company by Benjamin Dillingham in the late 1880s.
Oahu Railway and Land Company
Index
00:28 Program Introduction
01:25 eaH Business Meeting
01:58 Mac Humor
03:20 Speaker Introduction
03:54 Speaker - Jeff Livingston Early Years
04:50 Oahu Train Route
07:08 Kauila Engine 6 1st Engine
09:26 Honolulu Depot built Leahi & Kaala engines arrive
10:30 Selling Pearl City Lots
11:19 Carter Brothers Cars from California
12:07 Plush Carter Cars
13:07 Spur Built to Honolulu Harbor
14:28 Honolulu Rail Yard
15:20 Steam shovel
16:34 Pearl Palor Car King Kalakaua Queen Liliuokalani
18:05 'The Goliath' engine & 3rd Class Car
19:37 Honolulu Station
20:09 Pearl City Station
21:18 Ewa Mill Construction
22:25 EWA Mill Complete
23:24 Kaala Engine + 3rd Class Car
24:43 Annexation & Reciprocity 2-8-0 Engines
28:44 Ewa train in Sugar Cane Field
30:08 Waipahu Station
30:52 Waipahu Train
32:13 Signals
34:16 USS Akron Dirigible Mooring Tower
35:44 Dillingham Palor Car
38:03 Ewa Mill Station.
39:07 Ewa Garbage train
39:57 Mikado Engine
40:24 Ewa Plantation Junction & Water Tower
41:37 M-1 Motor Car
42:49 Honolulu New Station
43:28 Round House
43:42 Engine 85
43:59 Engine 12
44:29 Waipahu Station World War 2
44:57 Nanakuli Station
45:10 Meeting Close

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My family home was on Dillingham Blvd. next to the railroad spur that delivered cattle to the slaughterhouse. In 1939, we moved to Kalihi Kai next to the main railroad line at Puuhale Road. I left Hawaii in 1953, but my whole life in Hawaii was spent next to the railroad tracks.

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