| 词条 | Vaca Falls Railway |
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ⓘ Chalcopyriteⓘ Fluoriteⓘ Galenaⓘ Pyriteⓘ Quartz{{Infobox rail line|name = Vaca Falls Railway |image =Vaca Falls Railway.jpg |image_width = 275px |caption =Incline of the Vaca Falls Railway |linelength = {{convert|15|mi|km}} |gauge = {{track gauge|3 ft}} | map = {{BS-map|inline=1|map={{BS||mi (km)}}{{BS|exKBHFa|0 (0)|Vaca Falls}}{{BS|exhSTRae||Sapodilla trestle bridge}}{{BS|exKBHFe|15 (24)|Camp 6[1] in the Chiquibui Forest}}}}}} The Vaca Falls Railway was a {{convert|15|mi|km}} long {{track gauge|3 ft}} gauge logging railway between the Vaca Falls and the Chiquibui Forest on the Mountain Pine Ridge in Belize.[2] HistoryThe Vaca Falls Railway was operated as a funicular and with Montania benzene locomotives manufactured in Nordhausen. It was probably built in the mid-1920s by the Mengel Company of Kentucky,[3] and used for transporting mahogany logs.[2][5][6] The track belonged to the Belize Estate and Produce Company Ltd. and was in use until 1952.[2] Old tracks, locomotives and parts, which had been made in Alabama in 1926O are still in situ on the farm of the Morales family in the bush at the Che Chem Ha Cave on the Vaca Plateau in the area of Arenal, south of Benque Viejo del Carmen still. References 3 : rail transport in Belize|Logging|3 ft gauge railways |
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