Class 1 (Locobase 13620)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University Volume 27, p. 73. Works number was 24443 in July 1904.

When the Caibarien & Moron went back to Baldwin for another Consolidation 11 years after they bought the 4 (Locobase 12826), the order came through Krajewski & Pesant "for Sra Viuda de Ruiz de Gamiz" of the Ingenio Vitoria. The engine was similar, but now rolled on a slightly smaller gauge.

Class 1 (Locobase 14791)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University, Vol 63, p. 366.

According to the Baldwin specification sheet, this plantation Consolidation was originally ordered by the Central Australia. It may not have been delivered, so the engine sat in a side yard for more than four years before it was sold to North American Sugar Company's Central Narcisa. It was lettered for the CM and given number 1.

Class 11 (Locobase 14923)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University, Vol 64, p. 367. Works number was 53799 in October 1920.

Originally ordered by the Central Naranjal as their 2, this oil-burning plantation Mogul was resold to the CM before delivery and renumbered 11. At some later date, the 11 was sold to the Central Covadonga near Cienfuegos in Santa Clara Province. When that central was renamed after the 1959 Revolucion and nationalization for Antonio Sanchez, the 11 was renumbered 1623.

Class 2 (Locobase 15345)

Data from DeGolyer, Vol 78 pp. 13+. Works number was 58495 in June 1925.

This oil-burning plantation Consolidation was built to a design in widespread use by sugar railroads in Cuba and delivered to this central in Camagney Province. Like many of the Baldwin oil-burners, this engine was to be "readily" convertible to coal fuel.

Later it worked for nearby Central Macareno, which had been established in 1911 by J M Galdos.

Class 3 (Locobase 14470)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University Volume 54, p 193. Works numbers were 41706 in September 1914 and 44455 in November 1916.

The specification for this plantation Consolidation noted a particular grade that averaged 1/2% (26.4 feet per mile) for 15 miles (24.1 km) or a total rise of 396 feet (120 metres).

The Central Moron had not been in business long when the 3 was delivered in late 1914. Its first sugar crop, processed in 1912, made 150,000 bags of sugar. The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Grower, Vol XLIX, No 8 (24 August 1912), p. 130 noted that the company held 35,000 acres (14,170 ha) of land in Camaguey Province and that its factory held the distinction "of being the only one in Cuba built entirely of iron and glass, thereby having an excellent light throughout."

Class 4 (Locobase 12091)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University Vol 19, p. 49. Works number was 13839 in November 1893.

Maicas & Company were agents for several Cuban railways and agricultural entities. Locobase notes that on this Consolidation, the buyer chose fewer, but larger-diameter flues for the boiler.

Class 4 (Locobase 14023)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University Volume 44, p. 298. Works numbers were 38802 in December 1912 and 53685 in September 1920.

According to the specs, these plantation Consolidations faced light 35 lb/yard (17.5 kg/metre) rail, modest 1% grades, and curves as tight as 200 ft (61 m) in radius, a 29-degree curvature. Up the straight 1% grade, the engines were expected to pull 425 short tons (408 metric tons).

The 2, which arrived eight years later, was a duplicate of what was in fact a standard Baldwin design. The only change was the apparently inevitable weight increase to 65,400 lb (29,665 kg) on the drivers and 72,200 lb (32,749 kg) for the engine.

After the 1959 Revolution, the Mercedita was expropriated and renamed for Gregorio Arlee Manalich. The 4 took a new number as well: 1306.

Class 5 (Locobase 15350)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University, Volume 78, pp. 35+. Works number was 58534 in July 1925.

An example of standard Baldwin plantation Consolidation design, the 5 was delivered directly to the Central Macare'o at Santa Cruz del Sur on the southern coast of Camagney Province. The CM was renamed after the 1959 Revolucion and expropriation for the country of Haiti.

Class 7 (Locobase 14471)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University Volume 54, p 197. Works numbers were 46532-46533 in October 1917

These plantation Consolidations ordered by ASC parent Cuba Cane Sugar Corporation were quite different from the saturated-boiler locomotives that preceded them by only a few months (see Locobase 14470). Superheated boilers pressed to a higher degree generated more powerful steam that was admitted to the cylinders through 9 1/2 inch (241 mm) piston valves.

The oil-burning firebox had about the same heating surface area, but was shorter and deeper. (An extra order provided the "necessary material" to convert the locomotives to burn coal.) The specs tell us that the firebox was placed on top of the engine frame to proved better access to the staybolts. As a result, the boiler centerline was 6" (152 mm) higher than that of the 3-4.

A tender weighing twice as much held twice as much water and a considerable amount of crude-oil fuel.

Class 7 (Locobase 14829)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University, Vol 64, p. 62 and 360. Works numbers were 53988, 53993, 54053-54054 in November 1920.

The CM took delivery of four oil-burning plantation Consolidations of which three were ordered directly. Works number 54053 was originally ordered by the Central Ramona as their Domingo Leon 30, but resold a few months later to the Central Miranda and renumbered 10. Although a standard Baldwin design, the engine did receive some tweaks at the behest of its new owners. Most of the changes were small and concerned sources of some of the special equipment. Tender size increased from the specified 2,000 gallons.

Class Aime (Locobase 14908)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University Vol 64, p. 384. Works number was 43729 in October 1917, 52414 in September 1919 and 53655 in September 1920.

Rolling on 40 lb/yard (20 kg/metre) rail around curve radii of 246 feet (75 metres) and up 2.3% grades, the first of a trio of outside-frame plantation Consolidations was delivered with a firebox that burned a mixture of wood and coal. A spark-arresting Radley & Hunter stack reduced fire risk. Its specification required that it be able to burn soft coal only and that it be convertible to the 3 foot (914 mm) gauge.

Later renamed Antonio, the 9 was sold to the Central Victoria. When the CV was nationalized after the 1959 Revolucion, it was renamed for Simon Bolivar and the 9 renumbered to 1363.

Brother engines delivered two and three years later were coal burners from the start and had straight stacks. They were named Pedro Pablo (later Camilio Cienfuegos) and Don Alvaro (later Joaquin Paneca) and were lettered for the CM. Later in their career, they served the Central Narcisa and when that central was renamed for Obdulio Morales, the 16-17 took the numbers 1333.-1334

Class Enrique Pascual (Locobase 14828)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University, Vol 64, p. 60. Works number was 53147 in April 1920.

At the same time the Mercedita added a second small 2-8-0 to its motive power stud (Locobase 14827), it procured one of the larger standard Baldwin plantation Consolidations. Despite its off-the-shelf origins, this was clearly a special engine as suggested by its pride-of-place number and its identification with the CM's founder as indicated by the brass plates embossed with his name and attached to each side under the cab. Its route included the Cuban Central Railways.

The 1 was later sold to El Pilar, which was expropriated after the 1959 Revolucion and renamed for Eduardo Garcia Lavandero. The 1 was renumbered 1705.

Class unknown (Locobase 15016)

Data from Roy V Wright (Ed.) 1922 Locomotive Cyclopedia of American Practice, Sixth Edition (New York: Simmons-Boardman Publishing Company, 1922), p. 1008. Works number was 5811 in March 1916.

This plantation Consolidation was among the many 2-8-0s of this size working for sugar mills. The Cuba Cane Sugar Company amassed quite a holding of sugar centrals in the 'teens. Broker M Tillman ordered this relatively hefty engine.

The Central Mercedes was located at Calimete in Matanzas Province. When the 1959 Revolucion turned to nationalization, the mill was renamed Seis de Agosto (Sixth of August).