Haiti 1876 RailRoadsThe first franchise for the construction of a street railway was awarded in 1876 to a group of New York financiers, who founded the Compagnie des Chemins de Fer de Port-au-Prince.
The CCFPP ordered six open cars from the J. G.
Brill Co. in Philadelphia in October 1877 and inaugurated a tramway service on 17 January 1878.
The first line, which connected Croix des Bossales with the Champ de Mars, was probably the first railway in the country.
The drawing below shows the tramway on Rue des Miracles near Port-au-Prince Bay [see map].
This is the only illustration that has been found of a horsedrawn tram in Haiti
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