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Paperback Oahu's Narrow-Gauge Navy Rail Book

ISBN: 1467131970

ISBN13: 9781467131971

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...

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