Number 1808 is arriving at the central Cuba Libre with a loaded cane train. This engine has been built by Baldwin in 1927 for this mill.

The grade from the sugar mill to one of the nearby loading point is very steep. The little engines had to work very hard to overcome it. The show made by these locomotives was just majic!

Photographed at the mill weighbridge in March 1996, N° 1138 (built by Baldwin in 1908) was a welcome sight for railfans as Simon Bolivar mill had not been in use for the previous few seasons.

N°1530 is a Baldwin locomotive from 1925. It is seen here storming out into the fields with a long train of empties.

With the amount of oil leaking from the fuel tank of N° 1122 there is little chance of the motion seizing through lack of lubrication. This little switcher has been built by Porter in 1909.

Meeting between an iron horse and a normal horse at the Jose Smith Comas sugar mill.

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)

The 1205 from the Osvaldo Sanchez sugar mill is the first (and certainly the last) steam locomtive with a wheel arrangement of 0-4-4 T that I have ever seen! And it was in steam ... This funny eng... (more)

The rail systems at Obdulio Morales and the adjacent Simon Bolivar mill were part of a much larger public railway which connected the towns of Caibarian, some 20 miles west along the coast, with C... (more)

Number 1306 is Baldwin from 1912. In March 2000, the locomotive was shunting in the yard.

Meeting between two American "oldies" at the far end of the Mal Tiempo line.

It is late afternoon and the Baldwin consolidation number 1320 is storming back to the mill with a loaded cane train.

Number 1611 is a mogul built in 1925 by Baldwin. It is seen here shunting in the Cuba Libre mill.

The mikado number 1910 from the Ifrain Alfonso sugar mill was together with the 1850 from the same central the biggest steam locomotive operating on the Cuban island. It has been built by Alco Bro... (more)

Central Espartaco had one of the finest collections of original locomotives at any Cuban sugar mill. The 1327 is a Baldwin from 1911. It has been built for this mill. It is seen here shunting a lo... (more)