One St. Kitts and Nevis-based company believes that it has found a way to lure more tourists to the twin island federation: buy a new locomotive.
The St. Kitts Scenic Railway, which operates an 18-mile narrow-gauge railway around St. Kitts, has purchased a $650,000 locomotive from a United States manufacturer, company officials said. The locomotive is scheduled to arrive this month and to be operable in time for the winter cruise tourism season, according to a company press release.
“We have begun construction of a new locomotive specifically designed for curves and grades on a narrow-gauge railway which was used under sugar,” Thomas Williams, the railway company’s vice-president, said in the release.
He added that the locomotive is about 70 percent complete and the unit’s shorter wheelbase will allow it to navigate the curved track more easily.
See the Sept. 6, 2012 edition for full coverage.
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