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| Today is a slow news day on Pleasure Island so we'll run this filler article instead. The pics were taken last September in Nadi, Fiji where I stayed at the Fiji Gateway Hotel. The hotel is located across the main highway from Nadi International Airport. Crossing the entrance road into the airport was this railroad sign and a set of tracks. |
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| I was curious about the tracks. They were of a 2-ft. narrow gauge and their silver polished tops were an indication of likely recent use. But over several days of my visit, I never saw or heard any trains. |
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| But on my last day there, I heard the train's horn and made it to the track in time to see this tiny locomotive coming across the airport entrance road! |
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| It was pulling 30+ tiny carriages of sugar cane! |
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| For more than a century in Fiji, the cane trains take cut sugarcane from the fields to the crushing mills. |
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| Fascinating! The famed Sunshine Rail Line used to deliver passengers to Pleasure Island back in history and a couple months ago we had an article about it which you can find here. |
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