CARAHATA
SHORT
HISTORY OF THE CARAHATAS
Carahatas have been invented in the North of Villa Clara province in a town called Carahatas. The road access was not that good and having a sugar cane line nearby, the town adapted a Giron Bus to the rails as a small four axle railcar just like a small bus but going by rail.
Carahatas have been invented in the North of Villa Clara province in a town called Carahatas. The road access was not that good and having a sugar cane line nearby, the town adapted a Giron Bus to the rails as a small four axle railcar just like a small bus but going by rail.
Following
that invention and due to the transportation scarcities and need, the
idea was nationalized and soon thereafter all 14 provinces adopted to
have these small railcars, Carahatas, running to remote areas, helping
MINAZ workers and country folks on the way. The standard was to adopt
buses to rails but then the Taino factory in Cardenas (a Railroad
Equipment Manufacturer) built some as well.
The
idea was to have a bus on rails to places where roads were not
asphalted.
Then
being adopted nationally this innovative transportation mean had to be
controlled somehow, since it had become a larger scale
transportation sector. It was decided that MINAZ rather than UFC
handled it, as well in close association with each individual province
or even at the municipality level. They mostly run on remote sugar cane
branches operated by MINAZ and mostly in/out of the small villages that
surround the sugar mills, so MINAZ got to regulate,control and
operate this initiative.
Oscar A. Jalice
Oscar A. Jalice