ABOVE: West Indies Alumina Co. RS8 No. 1133 rests at the Port Esquivel shops in February 2015. Built by MLW for service in South Korea, this locomotive was later rebuilt with an EMD prime mover before being imported to Jamaica 15 years ago.
RIGHT: Windalco MLW RS8 No. 1132 was built in the 1970s for Jamaica Railway Corp. It’s one of two Windalco locomotives that retains its original JRC colors.
mainline in 1988 and there was no at- tempt to rebuild and recover. For a time the Appleton Express tourist train ran from Montego Bay to the rum distill- ery at Appleton Estates. All passenger service ended in 1992, but was briefly revived from Spanish Town to Charlem- ont in 2011 to help commuters during a disruptive construction project. The pilot project ultimately proved unprofitable and the service ended in August 2012. The remaining real estate and rolling
stock assets of the JRC are now being sold off. Today, private operations re- lating to the aluminum industry are the only traffic remaining. Talk occasionally resurfaces of returning passenger trains with the help of foreign investment, es- pecially as vehicle congestion increases and travel times over the roads remain unpredictable.
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Jamaican Railways Today MONTEGO BAY DISCOVERY BAY
All JRC tracks Out of Service
Cambridge Ipswitch
Nain Alpart
PORT KAISER KM MILES 0 0 10 10 20 30 20 40 30 JRC
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Hayes ROCKY POINT Noranda Alexandria Richmond Ewarton
Linstead Bog Walk
Windalco ANTONIO PORT
Illustration by Otto M. Vondrak. Not all lines and stations shown. Not an official map. ©2015 White River Productions
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