HAWAII
| Although the historically minded among us will know that Hawaii was not a state in 1949, and wonder why it has a boxcar, Hawaiians had contributed a large amount of sugar to the Friendship Train's relief goods that went to France in 1947. Although I haven't read of what the residents of the District of Columbia contributed to that effort, I feel quite confident that it was significant and that the French people wanted to make sure that expressions of their gratitude would reach those peoples in Hawaii and Wash, D.C. Therefore they did designate one of the cars to be shared by those communities. Although I have not yet found any official reports that tell me how the gifts were split, but Hawaii does have the box car and the claim below in the (Artifacts) paragraph may explain why. |
| Location: |
| Hawaii Railway Society, P.O. Box 1208, Ewa Beach, Hawaii, 96706 |
| Contact: |
| Mr. Glen Houlton, (808) 681-5461 |
| Artifacts: |
| All of the gifts from the Washington D.C. - Hawaii box car are reported to have been removed to Washington, but there is no knowledge of their existence today. |
| Read about John and Sue Ann Irving's visit to the Hawaiian Boxcar |
