Central Ciego de Avila 2-6-0 Locomotives in Cuba

Class 3 (Locobase 14402)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University Volume 54 p. 115+. Works number was 41708 in September 1914.

This was a big engine as plantation Moguls went, especially in the design's cylinder volume and relatively tall drivers.

Class 4 (Locobase 14378)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University Volume 54 p. 105+ and Vol 63, pp. 387+. Works numbers were 42565 in September 1915 and 53805 in October 1920.

Plantation Mogul whose sugar road presented curve radii as small as 113 feet (34.4 metrres). Ciego de Avila lies in the center of the island, some 424 km (263 miles) from Havana (and 418 km-260 miles from Guantanamo at the eastern end).

The #3 shown in Locobase 14401 and delivered in 1914 may have quickly been seen as more locomotive than this sugar central needed. So the #4 was smaller in all respects. That impression is strengthened by the arrival of the 5 five years later that was built to the same specifications.

The 5 was later sold to the Central Algodones. After the 1959 revolution, the Central Orlando Gonzales Ramirez numbered this engine 1562.