Minas & Rio 2-6-0 Locomotives in Brazil

Class 7 (Locobase 13595)

Data from Andrew Coombs' Railways of the Far South [of Argentina] website at [], last accessed 26 December 2011. See also The Railway Times (31 January 1885), p. 158.. (Thanks to Teemu Koivumaki whose 2023 email included a comprehensive spreadsheet of Brazilian steam locomotive builders, works numbers, and owners.) Works numbers were 2242-2243 in 1882.

An 1885 circular published by the developers of this railway offered the following, probably rose-colored, account of the first years of their company:

"So far the traffic has been of a very general character, and is therefore more regular and leas likely to be intermittent than if depending mainly on any particular article of produce. The first train of cattle was run on the 18th of November, and as cattle from Minas must be either driven over the mountains to the market of Rio de Janeiro or travel thither by rail, it is anticipated that the Railway route will eventually be preferred, and that a considerable increase of traffic will be the result. Recent advices from the General Manager indicate increasing development of the resources of the district served by the Company's Railway; new houses are being erected, and clearances of considerable tracts of land for cultivation are being effected, thus giving promise of a steady growth in the Company's traffic."