Article with pictures, The Tramways of Port-au-Prince by Allen Morrison
Thanks for sharing the website and photos.
[#offtopic] Several years back I had to do a paper on the population of Haiti, and in none of the research did I see anything that remotely referenced any public, rail-style transport of any stripe. Haiti has been a very poor nation for almost the entire period since it became a republic after the slave revolt of the 1820’s. It was a very rich land, arable; which the French had occupied in order to grow sugar for export; utilization for agriculture by the French of imported black slaves from Africa. The French had purged the indiginous population of the Native Arawak indians, in order to use the imported slave labor from Africa.
Governed in the twentieth century by a series of Kleptocracies which depleted the national treasury, and further reduced the population to abject poverty; esentially leaving the society with two classes, “haves and have nots”. Average income is something around two dollars a day. Maybe, as the current destruction is rebuilt they can modernize and bring their society into the twenty-first century. Interestingly, the two countries on Hispanola are very seperate regemes, the Dominican Republic is fairly prosperous, while the Haitian economy is ;virtually non existant. Politically, and racially they are poles apart; periodically, the government of the D.R. will purge its population of Haitians, and send them back over the border.
In the Dominican Republic the two largest cities have each urban light rail mass transit (Santo Domingo and Santiago). There is a a mix of commercial and private railways in various gauges that service the D.R. with no connections to Haiti.