So, I just got back from a trip there, had a wonderful time, and for the first time ever experienced a land off the continental US. Their railroad history struck me. It’s odd they once had a national system, but due to primarily economic changes, it was ultimately abandoned. Now their only two remaining railroads are the not even mile long CHEMEX Railroad in Ponce and the closed 3-foot gauge line in Arryo (or however it’s spelled), oh and the subway system in San Juan. I believe they should have retained their national system.
If I remember my Carribean railroads, islands like Puerto Rico bustled in the sugar trade moving people not as common carriers so much as brining the sugar from the field to the refineries to the docks…it was a completely different system and environment than what we have up here in the States and in other, larger, more populated, and industrialized countries.