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Oahu’s Narrow-Gauge Navy Rail

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US Navy rail operations on Oahu began in 1908 with construction railroads used to help build the shipyard. Expansion of Pearl Harbor to include the submarine base and the naval magazine on Kuahua Island required a permanent railroad, which was begun in 1911. This construction provided industrial employment to hundreds of local men in the existing agricultural economy, and the influx of additional manpower from the mainland contributed to an increasingly skilled and diverse population.

World War II brought about a dramatic increase in Navy railroad operations in support of the war effort, and success in the Pacific Theater depended on the Navy’s railroads, equipment, and the Oahu Railway and Land Company (OR&L), which connected all of the bases. The OR&L abandoned its main line in December 1947 and by the mid 1950s, railroad operations at Pearl Harbor also ceased. However, rail operations continued at and between Naval Magazine Lualualei and Ammunition Depot West Loch through the Korean Conflict and Vietnam era, ending in 1972.

Page Count 128 pages
Publisher Arcadia Publishing Printed in USA
Publish Date September 2014
Dimensions 9.25” x 6.5” x .30”
Author Jeff Livingston
About the Author A historian at the Hawaiian Railway Society, uses historic photographs form the 14th Naval District and Hawaiian Railway Society photograph collections to document the early years of Pearl Harbor and the story of these now largely forgotten railroads.
Binding Softcover
ISBN 13 9781467131971

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