2-8-0 Steam Locomotives in Brazil

Class 42 (Locobase 12136)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University Volume 19, p 193 and Volume 20, p. 220. Works numbers were 14210-14215 in January 1895 and 15074-15077 in October 1896.

High-volume Vauclain compounds for the time with 11 1/2" (292 mm) piston valves. Good balance in the heating surfaces and relatively high axle loading. Compounding ratio

Class 58 (Locobase 12224)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University Volume 20, p. 221. (Thanks to Ivo Rutishauser for his 7 February 2026 email correcting the works numbers.) Works numbers were 15092-15097 in October 1896.

Two years after the Paulista took delivery of their quartet Vauclain compounds (Locobase 12136), the railway ordered this sextet of similar, but smaller and less powerful Vauclain compounds that rolled on three short tons less axle loading.

Class 80 (Locobase 13659)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University, Volume 44, p. 23. Works numbers were 38819-38821 in November 1912.

Class unknown (Locobase 20854)

Data from Lionel Wiener, Les chemins de fer du Breñsil (Paris: H. Dunod et E Pinat, Editeurs, 1912), p. 115. Works numbers were 3878-3880 in 1898.