Vittoria a Minas 2-6-0 Locomotives in Brazil

Class Francisco Sa (Locobase 12862)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University Volume 28, p. 62. Works number was 26843 in November 1905 and 27156 in December.

These 3/4-scale Moguls were sold by the V a M to the Paulista, where they took road numbers 1-2. Given that two engines were bought in the next year (Locobase 12863) with exactly the same numbers and name and that they were quite a bit smaller, Locobase supposes this pair quickly proved too big for the V a M.

Class Francisco Sa (Locobase 12863)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University Volume 28, p. 62. Works number was 28473-28474 in June 1906 and 29773-29774 in December.

Locobase's suspicion in entry 12862 that the 1905 pair of Moguls were too big and thus sold off very quickly is reinforced by an unequivocal requirement in the specs for their replacements. Under the weights, which came to about half of the earlier locomotives, a Baldwin representative wrote: "Engines to weight EXACTLY [underline in original] as specified."