Cuba and Jamaica come to mind...
Other islands with railroads: Tasmania, New Zealand, Indonesia, Philippines.
Wow!
Depends on what you mean by "their own." Newfoundland was a good case. Entirely separate narrow gauge operation, until taken over by CN when it moved from Crown Colony status to Canadian Province. There were car ferries to the mainland and change of trucks even before that, however. Budt Prince Edward Island always was a Province, from Canada's start. The standard gauge railroad was connected only by train ferry (with the loco on board) and was part of CN. Vabcouver Island, similar. Cuba has two nationalized railroads, its main railroad system, diesel, and Heshey, electric interurban in character. For the Dominican Republic, see the latest(?) trains about a narrow gauge sugarcane hauling railroad. Similar railroads were located in Peurto Rico and Bermuda and St. Kitts, with the latter now a tourist passenger railroad. Neville Island at Pattisburgh had an industrial railroad of its own and may still have it. Obviously, Manhattan Island has the New York City Transit Authority, Metro North, the Long Island Railroad, Port Authority Trans-Hudson, and Amtrak, but all obviously operate outside the island as well. (New Jersey Transit is a tentant on Amtrak in Manhattan and so does not count.) The Italian railroad system has at least one line in Sicily. The Isle of Man has the Douglas horsecar waterfront line, the Manx Electric Railway (a perfectly preserved 1897 interurban line), the Snaifel Mountain electric line, and the steam-operated line to Canbeltwon. The Isle of Wite has a third-rail electric line operated by ex-Underground trains. All of Japan's islands have railroads. Tauwab has high speed passenger trains. Manilla in Hawaii has an elevated light rial line. I'll stop for now.
What islands around the world have, or in the past have had their own railroad?
Modeling the "Fargo Area Rapid Transit" in O scale 3 rail.
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