Re: British Columbia Sugar Refining Company "Banina"

From:
[www.internationalsteam.co.uk]

Ingenio Ozama, Distrito Nacional (19 km NE of S.D.): (March 2nd)

Opened sometime between 1881 and 1895 as Ingenio San Luis, this mill closed in 1930 due to hurricane damage. It reopened as Ingenio Ozama in 1939 and was owned by a Canadian family until nationalization in 1953. Its railway extended to 13 miles by 1913 and 39 miles by 1923, when extensions to Cojobal and Reventon were under construction and the network had ten bridges. At that time, eight steam locomotives were in use (one 7-ton, three 11-ton, one 22-ton, one 14-ton, one 34-ton and one 26-ton), together with 236 Gregg cane cars, six box cars, six sugar cars and 18 dump cars, carrying 128,000 tons, including 1000,000 tons of cane, 10,000 of sugar, 10,000 tons of firewood, 5,000 tons of coal and various materials and 3,000 tons of stone and sand.

Ultimately the network extended to 72 miles and in 1978 six GE and Plymouth diesel locomotives were in use (one 42.5-ton, one 40-ton, one 35-ton 130 h.p., two 30-ton and one 18-ton), together with 376 12-ton cane cars.

In 1999 the mill, with a capacity of 3,600 tonnes/day, was leased to Consorcio del Caribe, S.A. It had closed by January 2007 and except for the chimney and administrative block, which is now part of the Liceo Carlixta Estela Reyes, has been demolished, with no trace of the former railway.
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Bruce