Written sources
First-hand field survey from a visit 12–14 March 2014. The single richest source for this site: steam locomotive roster, the full GE 70-ton diesel roster with provenance, network layout, schedules, crew and maintenance details.
Overview of Dominican railway history generally, including the historical 757 km / 375 km-standard-gauge figure for Central Romana and context on the defunct state passenger railway.
Corporate ownership history: South Puerto Rico Sugar Co. → Gulf & Western → Central Romana Corporation, Ltd.
Vendor case study describing the digitization of Central Romana's train-order dispatching into a GPS-tracked Track Warrant Control system, replacing a paper-based process.
The company's own homepage, for background on the full scope of the business beyond the railway (agriculture, tourism, real estate, and manufacturing).
The company's own account of its founding and growth, a useful complement to the railway-focused history told on this site.
Company's own published figures on railway use: 354 km of track, 17 locomotives, 900 cane wagons, ~4,000,000 tons of cane moved per 225-day harvest, and the switch from wooden to precast-concrete ties.
"2-8-0 Steam Locomotives in the Dominican Republic," SteamLocomotive.com (Locobase, by Steve Llanso)
Detailed technical dimensions and works numbers for the Baldwin 2-8-0 Class 9 locomotives (road nos. 9, 10, 12, 14), sourced from digitized Baldwin Locomotive Works specifications held at the DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University.
Trade-press knowledge-hub entry giving an older comparative snapshot of all Dominican sugar railways, including a ~380 km / 16-locomotive / 821-wagon figure for the Gulf & Western (Central Romana) network.
General enthusiast overview confirming Central Romana as the largest of the surviving Dominican sugar railway networks, alongside Ingenio Cristóbal Colón and Central Ingenio Barahona.
Background on the general history and technology of cane-railway transport (tramway gauges, gantry-crane transshipment, steam-to-diesel transition) used for industry-wide context rather than Central Romana-specific facts.