Central Jagueyal / Central Jobabo / Central Josefita 2-8-0 Locomotives in Cuba

Class 1 (Locobase 14817)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University, Vol 64, p. 41. Works number was 53203 in April 1920.

The Cuba Company opened this central sugar processor in 1911 in the middle of an estate that measured about 100,000 acres (40,600 ha). Jobabo was located southeast of Camaguey and southwest of Las Tunas in eastern Cuba about 22 miles north of the south coast. It eventually employed more than 800 workers by the mid-1920s.

This oil-burning plantation Consolidation duplicated 2-8-0s in several other Centrals.

After the 1959 Revolucion, the expropriation of private property caused the Central Jobabo to be renamed Peru.

Class 3 (Locobase 14858)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University, Vol 64, p. 137 Works number was 53956 in November 1920.

In the gaggle of oil-burning Consolidations ordered by Cuban sugar mills just after World War One, this engine stood apart as being one of the few coal burners. The CJ, owned by Antilla SA Compania Azucarera, was located in La Habana Province at Nueva Paz, about a mile away from Los Palos. Its 60 lb/yard (30 kg/metre) rails had to bend around relatively tight curves with minimum radii of 169 feet (51.5 meters).

After the 1959 Revolucion and expropriation, the mill would be renamed for Manuel Isla Perez.

Class 6 (Locobase 14472)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University Volume 54, p 197. Works number was 46534 in October 1917

A superheated plantation Consolidation, this engine was ordered by the Cuba Sugar Cane Corporation at the same time it bought two identical locomotives for the Central Moron (Locobase 14471).