Deep in the Cuban countryside, the most widely used means of transport are horses and ox carts for heavier loads. This peasant returns home with a cart loaded with firewood. Meanwhile, # 1387 (a B... (more)

Among Cuba most precious operable steam locomotive was this 30 inches gauge Baldwin 0-6-0 built in 1882 and here being fired up at the Central Rafael Freyre for our charter train. The well kept st... (more)

The Minaz Consolidation #1386 from the Rafael Freyre sugar mill is a Baldwin from 1919. This locomotive has been built for this mill as Santa Lucia (name of the Rafael Freyre mill before the revol... (more)

Cuba received several used locomotives from sugar mills in Hawaii that shut down their railroad operations in the 1940's and 50's, including the yellow and green GE centercab disel unit seen here.... (more)