The Hershey Cuban Railway

The Hershey Cuban Railway

In 1916 the Hershey Chocolate Corporation of Pennsylvania purchased large tracts of land and built a sugar mill 45 km east of Havana, about halfway between the capital and Matanzas a smal village of Havana province. To transport its produce to nearby ports and its workers to adjacent towns, it built a network of 135 km of electric railways. The first branches were steam-powered, but in 1919 Hershey Cuban Railway began ordering electric equipment from J. G. Brill and General Electric. Electric passenger service between Matanzas and "Central Hershey" (the sugar mill) began in January 1922 and was extended to Casablanca, across the bay from Havana.
This streetcar is going 135 km from the Havanas superb callen Casa Blanca to a small village called Matanzas.There are usually four trains per day from Havana Casablanca to Matanzas, but the service is irregular.