Central do Brasil 2-6-6 Locomotives in Brazil

Class 200 (Locobase 2887)

Data from Catalogue Descriptive of Simple and Compound Locomotives built by Brooks Locomotive Works, Dunkirk, NY (Buffalo, NY: Matthew-Northrup Company, 1899) and diagram of the later 2-6-0 configuration presented on the Centro-Oeste website at [], last accessed 28 Januray 2018; and "Locomotives for Brazil", National Car and Locomotive Builder, Volume 25, No 11 (November 1894), pp. 178-179. info from B.Rumary, 25 Kingscombe, Gurney Slade, Radstock, BA3 4TH, ENGLAND and Jeremy Lambert as supplied by Allen Stanley in March 2004. The latter, highly useful document shows that this design was delivered in several batches. Works numbers 2455-2464 in August 1894; 2 497-2500 &, 2507-2513 in January 1895. The shipment was part of a large 60-locomotive order for both the broad and metre gauge. See Locobase 4767.

This large, broad-gauge tank engine had a wagon top boiler with a coned section between the steam and sand domes. It was also outfitted with a clerestory cab at one end and Pintsch gas headlights at each end.. Given its driver diameter, it was probably a dual-purpose locomotive.

Sometime later, the EFCB solved the excessive rigidity of a 2-6-6T arrangement by removing the side tanks and adding a separate tender; see Locobase 20550.