List of Hawaii railroads

This transport-related list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (October 2021)

Passenger railroads

  • Skyline (first segment opened on June 30, 2023)

Heritage and Scenic Railroads

Defunct railroads

Electric

  • Honolulu Rapid Transit and Land Company

Industrial Rail Operations

Island of Hawaii

  • Hamakua Mill Company
  • Kukaiau Plantation Company
  • Hawaii Agricultural Company
  • Honokaa Sugar Company
  • Pacific Sugar Mill Company
  • Hutchinson Sugar Plantation Company
  • Kaiwiki Sugar Company, Ltd
  • Kohala Sugar Company
  • Kona Sugar Company
  • Olaa Sugar Company
  • Puna Sugar Company
  • Hawaiian Mahogany Lumber Company
  • Laupahohoe Sugar Company
  • Paauhau Sugar Plantation Company
  • Puako Plantation
  • Waiakea Mill Company

Island of Kauai

  • Grove Farm Company
  • Hawaiian Sugar Company
  • Kekaha Sugar Company
  • Kilauea Sugar Plantation Company
  • Koloa Sugar Company
  • The Lihue Plantation Company
  • Hanamauku Sugar Plantation
  • Ahukini Terminal and Railway Company (absorbed by the Lihue Plantation)
  • McBryde Sugar Company
  • Eleele Plantation
  • Kauai Railway Company (McBryde Sugar Company sponsored)
  • Waimea Sugar Mill Company

Island of Lanai

  • Maunalei Sugar Company

Island of Maui

  • Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company
  • Kihei Plantation Company
  • Maui Agricultural Company
  • Paia Plantation
  • Kaeleku Sugar Company
  • Hana Plantation Company
  • Kipahulu Sugar Company
  • Kaeleku Sugar Company
  • Pioneer Mill Company
  • Olowalu Sugar Company
  • Wailuku Sugar Company

Island of Molokai

  • American Sugar Company

Island of Oahu

Railroad Depot on Oahu, c. 1900
  • Ewa Plantation Company
  • Heeia Agricultural Company
  • Kahuku Plantation Company
  • Koolau Railway Company (bought out by Kahuku Plantation Company)
  • Hibiscus & Heliconia Short Line Railroad
  • Oahu Sugar Company
  • Honolulu Plantation Company
  • Waiahole Water Company
  • Waialua Agricultural Company
  • Waianae Sugar Company
  • Waimanalo Sugar Company

References

  • Hilton, George W. (1990). American Narrow Gauge Railroads. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-2369-9.
  • John B. Hungerford, Hawaiian Railroads, 1963. Reseda, California: Hungerford Press
  • Jesse C. Conde and Gerald M. Best, Sugar Trains, Narrow Gauge Rails of Hawaii, 1973. Fenton, California: Glenwood Publishers
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