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Well, I came up with the name Ra'akone before I became a born-again railfan. I use Ra'akone almost everywhere...except my YIM, where I use rdctwist (after a certain dance popularized by Chubby Checker.....and a certain self-propelled diesel railcar I may have ridden on when I was younger) There were once rails in Samoa.....Independant Samoa had a narrow-gauge "wireless tramway" (in both senses...it was used to service a transmitter tower...or "wireless"....and it used gasoline rather than catenary), which was later extended to serve several plantations, erected by the Germans, and kept through the NZ administration until the late 50's (the last years, modified NZ rail locos were used). American Samoa had a temporary railroad built during WW2 for hauling cannons into position, it was donkeys hauling flatcars....and because it took so long for the material from the US to arrive, the local forces arranged for native carpenters to "carve" a wooden track and wooden flatcars. Definitly NOT FRA approved! Incidentally the Samoan word for train is "Ta'avale'afi" or "fire-car"......and Hawaiian used a similar word. ~Ra'akone
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