Editing Transport in the Bahamas (section)

==Railways==
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[[File:Bahamas timber company locomotive.jpg|thumb|Locomotive circling log pond in Wilson City, 1905]]
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There are no currently functioning railways in the Bahamas. However, there have been a few in the past including in Inagua, Abaco, and Grand Bahama used for the salt and logging industries. 

At Wilson City, Abaco, a mill plant and adjacent town was developed by the Bahamas Timber Company at a cost of around $1 million, including building 12 miles of railway for logging.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/trains/comments/xl41rz/accounts_the_railway_and_mills_of_wilson_city_and/|title=Accounts the railway and mills of Wilson city|accessdate=29 March 2023}}</ref> They operated three locomotives: a Vulcan 2-6-0, a Vulcan 0-4-4 tank, and a shay locomotive built at Lima Locomotive Works in Ohio. Along with the three locomotives, the company invested in almost 60 logging cars to carry the logs from the Forrest. Each train consisted of about 20 log cars. After Wilson City shut down at the end of [[World War I]], Abaco was extensively logged by the Bahamas Cuban company until 1944, when they moved to [[Pineridge (Bahamas Parliament constituency)|Pineridge]], Grand Bahama.

There were 5 camps on Abaco operated by the Bahamas Cuban Company. Norman’s Castle, Millville, Cornwall 1 and 2, and Cross Harbour. They used 4 narrow gauge locomotives produced by the Climax locomotive works. At the last 4 camps, causeways were built so that the rail lines could reach the shore, over the vast expanses of swamp and mangroves. After the sinking of the Norwegian tanker O.A. Knudsen, the survivors were transported to the Cross harbour camp via locomotive so that they could receive medical attention. One sailor, Olaus Johansen, died and was buried at the camp. Once the operation moved and the site was abandoned, his grave was forgotten and was lost for many years.

In Inagua, the Morton salt company used small Brookville diesel locomotives to pull trains of salt around the area. The locomotives were phased out eventually, but the tracks remained for a few more years before being removed due to contamination issued with the salt.

There have been a handful of smaller railways that operated without locomotives, built for the purpose of transporting salt, sisal, and agricultural produce. These existed in Abaco, Exuma, Inagua (Inagua tramways, 1860s), and New Providence. In Abaco there were two short railways built, one at Cedar harbour and one at a plantation near a large blue hole on Little Abaco. 

One of these were in Cat Island; the remnants of a short section of (now underwater) track can still be seen from the shore. The railroad was built in the 19th century to carry produce from [[Old Bight]] to a port where crops would be shipped to Europe and the US, and was closed when the US stopped foreign exports and plantations were no longer in use. The tracks were subsequently sent to the UK to be repurposed into scrap metal for weapons during [[World War II]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bahamasgeotourism.com/entries/abandoned-railroad-tracks/551b2614-7e37-4999-8ca5-1de06433b116|title=Abandoned Railroad Tracks|website=The Islands of the Bahamas|accessdate=28 March 2023}}</ref>