Soledad Sugar Company / Stewart Sugar Company 2-8-0 Locomotives in Cuba

Class 7 (Locobase 13164)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University Vol 44, p. 288. Works numbers were 38095-38096 in August 1912.

Of the first nine locomotives bought by the Cuba-based Stewart Sugar Co, 7 were small Moguls. For more onerous duties, the company bought a pair of Consolidations. Neither were very big. A July 1912 reports that a "mistake" led to the tubes projecting through the smoke box tube sheet a uniform 1/4" (6.35 mm). That was a little too little margin of error, apparently, as the note says that "Hereafter" that distance should be 1/2" (12.7 mm).

Class Teresa (Locobase 14430)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University Volume 54, p. 152. Works number was 42093 in May 1915.

One "Hereafter" note in the specifications noted that the springs were to be made heavier. Locobase has never seen an instruction in a plantation order that required the springs to be made lighter. The profile certainly suggested arduous duty: curve radii as tight as 200 feet (61 metres), 2% against the load and 3.65% with the load, and rail weights between 30 and 45 lb/yard (15-22.5 kg/metre).