2-8-0 Steam Locomotives in Cuba

Class 3 (Locobase 14807)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University, Vol 64, p. 9. Works number was 53824 in October 1920.

The Central Fajardo was located at Quivican in La Habana Province about 38 km (23.6 miles) south of Havana and near the Central San Agustin. Its standard-gauge railway's rolling stock included one of Baldwin's standard large plantation Consolidations.

After the 1959 Revolucion, the Central Fajardo had the unusual fortune to be renamed for Comandante Manuel Fajardo

Class 6 (Locobase 15248)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University, Vol 72, p. 10+. Works numbers were 57865-57866 in July 1924.

Both the Mogul shown in Locobase 14809 and this brace of oil-burning plantation Consolidations were among the biggest of their wheel arrangements to operate for sugar mills in Cuba. The 2-8-0s had 9 1/2" (241 mm) piston valves, relatively tall drivers, and good balances in their heating surface ratios and factors of adhesion.

These were later sold to the Central CTspedes, also of Camagney Province. That mill was taken over after the 1959 Revolucion and later expropriation and renamed for Carlos Manuel de CTspedes (for the sugar mill operator who on 10 October 1868 preemptively freed his slaves). The 6 was renumbered 1907 and the 7 received 1843.

Class 7 (Locobase 14895)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University, Volume 64, pp. 236. Works number was 53148 in April 1920.

Welch, Fairchild, and Company bought this oil-burning plantation Consolidation for the Central Sugar Company. When the Central Fidencia (which was the full name for the Central Fe), was nationalized after the 1959 Revolucion, it was renamed for Juan Pedro Carbo Servia and the 7 was renumbered 1727.

Class 8 (Locobase 14896)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University, Volume 64, pp. 238. Works number was 53282 in June 1920.

This is a variation on the typical small Baldwin oil-burning, standard-gauge plantation Consolidation that had tubes that were about two feet shorter than most others. It was bought by Welch, Fairchild, and Company for the General Sugar Corporation.

Class Domingo Leon (Locobase 14808)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University, Vol 64, p. 11. Works number was 52663 in November 1919.