Costa Rica: A Land With NO TRAINS!!!

[scott]

With apologies to those of delicate constitutions, I present a stunning exposé of a nation that purports to have a thriving tourist industry, and yet has (please sit down) NO TRAINS AT ALL!!! In fact, my investigations revealed that Costa Rica once *did* have a functioning railroad, but that a cabal of bus-line owners shut it down under the feeble excuse that the line was too often destroyed by earthquakes! Bah!

 

My team and I searched diligently through the nation, and found not a sign of railroads anywhere. The following link provides photographic documentation of many of the lame excuses for "attractions" that this benighted nation offers to disillusioned travelers:

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/certhia/collections/72157623275741044/

[disturbman]

At one point, I thought you were speaking about the US... 

[scott]

Stay tuned for my next exposé, "The United States: A So-called Civilized Nation"

[to2leo]

Can't wait 

[westfalen]

If Australian politicians see this they will start sending fact finding missions to Costa Rica to see how rail systems should be run.

[Mudkip Orange]

Stay tuned for my next exposé, "The United States: A So-called Civilized Nation"

 

Looking forward to it!

[Guest ___]

Blasphemy, the place should be burned to the ground, and rebuilt with trains, damnit.

[cteno4]

the train went out to the ne Caribbean coast and did go through areas that have had lots of problems over the years with earthquakes, flooding, etc. from what i heard when bananas used the rr it got fixed, once that dropped off they finally stopped fixing it. my trip there in the early 90s it was running up until a few months before we got there and then would open for a while and then fall apart again. i think due to a lot of failing infrastructure with rail running through some rough territory.

 

jeff

[scott]

Not to mention difficult running conditions, what with several meters of water falling out of the sky every year.

 

We had to drive that route, NE out of San Jose, over the mountains and down into the rainforest, in the dark. I've never seen fog so thick.

[cteno4]

did you go all the way out to the coast there? it gets really tough once past the mountains as then it turns into swamps, cannals everywhere. would not want to be there in an earthquake as it all seems to be loose fill, big slab of jello! so mucky many buildings were on stilts as foundations tended to sink too much! i can see where trying to keep rails over territory like that with lots of h2o and shakes would not be easy!

 

cheers

 

jeff

[scott]

No, we turned north to Puerto Viejo (we were heading to La Selva--we're saving Tortuguero etc for another trip.