EPV1722_Honduras 2007
Tela - Honduras
Ponton ferroviaire désaffecté de la UFCo à Tela. C'est d'ici que partais les bananes du Honduras pour les Etats-Unis avant la grave épidémie virale qui a dévasté les bananeraies de la Côte Caraïbe.
Tela became an important port in the early 1900s as headquarters of the Tela Railroad Company, later the United Fruit Company whose Honduran headquarters was there until 1970. The town's long dock burned in 1994. A hasty replacement, opened in January 1995, collapsed due to high winds, and the remnant is now used for fishing.
The town had an extensive railyard in which trains were used to run all the way out to the dock. Passenger trains still run twice a week from Tela to Puerto Cortés, the only routes in the country still served by trains.
EPV1722_Honduras 2007
Tela - Honduras
Ponton ferroviaire désaffecté de la UFCo à Tela. C'est d'ici que partais les bananes du Honduras pour les Etats-Unis avant la grave épidémie virale qui a dévasté les bananeraies de la Côte Caraïbe.
Tela became an important port in the early 1900s as headquarters of the Tela Railroad Company, later the United Fruit Company whose Honduran headquarters was there until 1970. The town's long dock burned in 1994. A hasty replacement, opened in January 1995, collapsed due to high winds, and the remnant is now used for fishing.
The town had an extensive railyard in which trains were used to run all the way out to the dock. Passenger trains still run twice a week from Tela to Puerto Cortés, the only routes in the country still served by trains.