On Nov. 16, 1889, Oahu Railway and Land Company (OR&L) began operating on Hawai`i’s third largest island, Oahu. The brainchild of Massachusetts native Benjamin Franklin Dillingham ...

Maui and Oahu. The tracks use a portion of the line begun by 19th-century businessman Benjamin Dillingham, who had a railroad and a special interest in Hawaii’s sugar cane plantations.

Honolulu’s last passenger train, the Oahu Railway & Land train was started by Benjamin Dillingham in 1889. According to a report by the late Honolulu journalist and historian Burl Burlingame ...