TIME OUT IN TRINIDAD - 1050s - Pt. 20 - Loading Cane. Erin Dairy. Rural Trinidad

All footage contributed by sooty123. This film is not to be copied without the consent of the operator of this channel. No. 20 in this series brings a tear to my eye. The lilting love song and the idyllic images of rural Trinidad bring to mind happy memories of a land I left 50 years ago. Beautiful in their simplicity, these scenes tell more than meets the eye about the backbreaking sugar industry in Trinidad. Note the donkey powered crane lifting massive bundles onto waiting railway wagons. Look carefully at the shot of the donkey as it pulls its cart onto the road. Note the hive of activity in the background and the railway crossing. This crossing is the Usine Ste. Madeleine track across the main road just entering Debe from the north.

Continuing on in this episode we visit the Erin Estate, a dairy farm, and we stroll along the byways of a Trinidad that disappeared a long, long time ago.

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• Usine Ste. Madeline

[doowapdom]

Ha!Reminds me of the sugar cane train that ran along the tracks behind the San Fernando yacht club. We used to run out shouting 'I wan some cane!!' And the crew would generally throw us a treat. Sometimes we'd get Wickham, the barman, to wrestle some through the bars of the cane trucks.

[rinpoche256]

Enjoyed the song, liked the donkey. Funnily enough I was looking at some of the Panaramio photographs for the Cape Verde islands on Google earth yesterday and there's one of a bullock cart piled I would say at least 5m high with a towering load of sugar cane.

[fuzzybearphoto]

That donkey operating the crane sure knows his job. He even look happy doing it.