Companhia de Navegatnpo Estrada de Ferro Mauá 2-2-2 Locomotives in Brazil

Class Baroneza (Locobase 20341)

Data from diagram presented on the Centro-Oeste website at []; and "Maua also was an integration pioneer" at [], last accessed 28 Janauray 2018.

The Baroneza earned a railway first when it pulled the inaugural train on 30 April 1854. The run covered 14.5 km to Raiz da Serra da Estrela (later named Vil Ihomirim). The engine was named after the wife of visionary engineer Irineu Evangelista de Souza then Barao (Baron) de Maua.

The Centro Oeste account notes that this locomotive never served on a State-owned line as it was retired by the EF Maua in 1870 when the railway adopted the metre gauge. Fortunately for Brazilian railway history, however, the Maua offered the Baroneza (modern Baronesa) to the imperial government, which preserved it as a "living monument" (monumento vivo). In the 21st century, the locomotive was on display at the Engenho de Dentro railway museum in Rio de Janeiro. Although the locomotive does not operate, its whistle was blown in 2002 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the establishment of the first Brazilian railway.