Laupahoehoe Train Museum Hosted by Marilyn Cariaga
Laupahoehoe Train Museum helps to preserve the history of the railroads and sugar plantations on the Big Island.
Spend the day finding out more about where you and others live. You'll be fascinated by what you discover.
Please support the Laupahoehoe Train Museum by becoming a member.
For more information call (808) 962-6300 or email laupahoehoetrainmuseum@yahoo.com
Thank you for your generosity.
With aloha, Marilyn Cariaga
PS My grandfather Victor Namacot worked on the railroad.
Laupahoehoe Train Museum grant (July 2008)
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LAUPAHOEHOE, Hawaii – The Institute of Museum and Library Services has awarded the Laupahohoe Train Museum a grant of $125,400.
Paranormal Investigation at Laupahoehoe Train Museum | Paranormal Paradise TV
Join author Zach Royer, founder and director of Kahuna Research Group and Paranormal Paradise TV as he visits the Laupahoehoe Train Museum on the Big Island of Hawaii.
Legend has it the museum is a focal point of paranormal activity. Kahuna Research Group recently visited the museum to respect, detect, collect any data to prove or disprove the paranormal claims. Our findings were indeed shocking.
Become a sponsor of Paranormal Paradise! We can incorporate your product, experience or whatever!
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Laupahoehoe Point Ceremony March 22, 2014
A beautiful ceremony captured on the north end of the Big Island remembering past ancestors and those recently passed. Thank you to Clyde Oshiro for inviting us to attend.
Ghosts Of The Big Island: Laupahoehoe Point (Tsunami Disaster Memorial)
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Laupahoehoe Hamakua Coast Big Island Hawaii Laupahoehoe part 2
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Waimea, Kalopa State Park, Laupahoehoe Point, Honoka'a, Hawaii Island
aimea, Kalopa State Park, Laupahoehoe Point, Honoka'a, Hawaii Island
Land in Laupahoehoe.MP4
A pretty awesome view from what is essentially the front yard of this choice listing in Laupahoehoe on the Big Island of Hawaii. Look like something you could live with? Call W. Augustuz Elliott, Principal Broker of Hamakua Coast Realty, Inc
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In the nearby town of Laupahoehoe visit the Train Museum and learn about the rail system that operated on the sugar plantations in years gone by. This former sugar plantation town has schools, shops, restaurants and a gas station. This area of the Hamakua Coast is halfway between the towns of Hilo and Waimea and is recognized as a heritage corridor, a string of towns with historic significance.
Nestled up against and bordered by The Laupahoehoe Natural Area Reserve, one of the most magnificent (State of Hawaii's description) forest reserves in Hawaii.
The DLNR noted the designated sites encompass remarkable gradients of climate, forest, soils and resource history, and will be among the most remarkable and unique experimental forests on earth.
A rare offering that combines the best of what Hawaii has to offer: privacy & serenity, expansive ocean and mountain views, forest reserve and the mellow lifestyle of Old Hawaii.
United States of America Hawaii street car drive Hawaii 2
United States of America Hawaii street car drive 2
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MANY REASONS TO REJECT RAIL
-The very idea that the state would sacrifice the most important amenity it has to offer the world, the beauty of its environment, is beyond belief. Bette Midler
-This train would be the largest financial burden and the biggest waste of money in the history of Hawaii
-Rail is a political scandal -- a project created for special interests, bankers and developers
TRAFFIC:
-city and Feds admit congestion will be much worse with rail than now
-current peak overload on H-1 is 1,000 vehicles per hour, will increase 700% to 7,000 with rail in 2030
-less expensive alternatives would be far more effective and could be implemented within a few years, benefitting all
-Leeward commuters need more express buses now rather than wait 20 years
ENVIRONMENT:
-visual blight: 20-mile, huge elevated concrete monster
-energy use: less efficient than future cars
-archaeological sites disturbed: major cultural issue
-historic sites harmed: not properly studied
COSTS:
-escalating from $2.7B in 2006; $3.8B 2009; $4.6B 2010; $5.3B 2012; (+40% avg overrun)...$7B in 2015?
-most expensive per capita, by far, in US history, $6,000 each person
-financial plan inadequate: already exceeding bond limits, FTA warnings
-Federal funds not guaranteed
-depletes transportation budget, preventing real solutions
-mandatory infrastructure requirements: $5B sewers, $5B water, $2B roads
-other city & state financial burdens: union salaries, $8B unfunded pensions & $14B unfunded medical
-Sen. Inouye warned that a mere $1B EPA mandate to fix sewers would bankrupt city
-annual subsidies: $70M if ridership is 116,000; fewer riders are more likely, requiring $100M subsidy
-future tax hikes would be needed; sewer fees could hit $400 monthly in a decade
-$5Billion would be enough to rebuild every school and still have billions left over for sewers, water & traffic
-Hawaii already burdened with nation's second-highest cost of living
RIDERSHIP:
-transit use would only increase from current 6% to 8% benefitting 2% using half our transportation budget
-grossly inflated claims of 116,000 daily = 100% increase -- has never happened anywhere
-national experience: ridership low and decreasing; projections usually wrong
-existing residential pattern: low density; very few (2% at most) will walk to rail
-bus to rail transfers: necessary, but will discourage riders
-city claims 60% will transfer by bus, four times higher rate than national average
-work pattern: downtown only 10% of jobs, others scattered
-parking provided at only 3 of 21 stations, 5,000 spaces for 116,000 daily rides
-first rail segment starts in vacant fields, presently successful farms: no riders, requiring 100% subsidy
-full route not open for 20 or 30 years
-ride discomfort: 80% standing, 41-minute ride, fewest seats in country
-slow speed: 27 mph; plus time wasted in transfers; stops every mile
LAND USE:
-Transit Oriented Development never happens, e.g. Portland, still waiting for development 25 years later
-resulting low-density Leeward developments will further increase congestion, destroy important farmlands
-better planning: build up city-center population
JOBS:
-foreign payments will export employment, net loss
-rail-tech requires importing specialized workers
-alternatives would create quality local work, building useful products
-traffic relief, not job-creation, should be main justification
OPERATION:
-safety: no drivers, no police, security not in budget
-breakdowns: a million moving parts, frequent failure likely
-honor system for fare collection unreliable
-old-fashioned, obsolete technology
-rigid alignment, cannot be modified for changing conditions
ALTERNATIVES:
-express buses and managed lanes not properly considered, producing distorted conclusions
-bus lane has four times more passenger capacity than rail, at higher speed with seated passengers
-our bus system and ridership levels lead the nation: we should build on that
-immediate improvements possible but ignored: enhanced roads, buses, signals
-changing social conditions: telecommuting; ride-sharing; growing information technology
-future cars: electric, computer-guided, self-driving, better use of lanes
POLITICS:
-misinformation: constant distortions of reality; misleading ads by government paid for with tax money
-city irresponsible to proceed now, issuing $300M in contracts in face of lawsuits and election
-if rail is not approved, new construction will have to be torn down
-biased studies: same planner, Parsons, recommended Bus Rapid Transit and dismissed rail in 2003
-polls show public now opposed
-2008 election rigged by big $$ on misleading ads, Hannemann landslide loss in 2010
2012 Hawaii Astro/Geology Field Trip (Day 1)
First day of CU Boulder's Planetary Science & Geology field trip to Hawaii, November 2012. Started off at Ho'okena beach, then visited South Point, Green Sand Beach (which has beautiful green Olivine sand), and then finished our day camping at Black Sand Beach.
Kua Bay Beach - 6/10/2011
The drive to Laupahoehoe Beach
Laupahoehoe Point Beach Park Crashing Waves Hawaii
A very sweet local woman who owned the hotel I stayed at in Honokaa suggested I visit Laupahoehoe Point Beach Park. She swore up and down that it was the absolute best beach for swimming. While I am thankful for her recommendation to visit, I had to wonder if she was throwing this tourist some shade by suggesting a swim in likely the most treacherous waters I have ever seen! It's an absolutely stunning place. A must see. But definitely not a place to swim or even wade in the water unless you want to be carried away to your next life.
Reins Hawaii N: Looping Drive to Laupahoehoe Beach Park
Driving north on the Mamalahoa Hwy, first we drive a down a switch - back loop into the Laupahoehoe stream valley, then back up and out of the valley, then we drive a residential domestic roadway (Laupahoehoe Point Road) to the Tsunami-Historic beach park of the same name.