The Kauai Plantation Railway Sugar Cane Train Lihue Kauai Hawaii!!!

I visited the Kauai Plantation Railway in December 2023, Five days prior to the recording of this video, My family and I had just flown across the Pacific ocean from our home in Calgary, Alberta Canada The Kauai Plantation Railway does operate and consist of a 1948 General Electric (GE) 25 ton diesel locomotive No. 25 that they aquired from the Georgetown Loop Railroad in Colorado, 3 custom made replica passenger cars, and one custom-made replica open air car. The flattrucks that the passenger cars are on came from the White Pass & Yukon in Alaska and the Yukon, Canada.

Apparently, this railway was put together by the Willcox family in 2006 that which all that land was apart of their own backyard at the time. When they constructed The full-size, 3-Foot Gauge or Narrow Gauge Railway that we see in the video today, eventually people found out about the operation, but the next thing you know, you don’t want a whole bunch of tourists in your own backyard on your Sunday off, so that’s when they decide to sell the railway to a private organization. The Kauai Plantation Railway was founded as of 2007.

The plantations themselves had closed after 2016 marked the Demise of the last plantations in operations not just on Kauai, but everywhere in Hawaii. And that’s when the idea came to the railways mind that maybe They should try something different for a change like farming, and that is where you see the railway in the success that it is today.

Tickets costs Adult: $22.00 US, Child (age 3-12): $16.00 US Infant (under 3): Free, and Senior (Age 62+) $19.00 US to ride the train.

If you want to visit the Kauai Plantation for yourself, the train tours are available every day all year-round.

0:00 Train Depot
0:42 Gift Shop
1:14 Tickets
2:44 All Aboard!
4:57 Train Tour
9:41 The Plantation
13:26 Pigs Horses and Cows
17:30 Sugar Cane Industry
19:08 Switching the tracks.
19:55 Fruits
20:32 Demise of the Sugar Cane Industry
21:40 Freshwater ponds
22:06 Local Farmers
23:35 Forest
25:01 Mele Kalikimaka