Central Romana 2-8-0 Locomotives in the Dominican_Republic

Class 9 (Locobase 14777)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University, Vol 63, p. 310, Vol 78, pp. 128+. Works numbers were 52074-52075 in July 1919, 58487 in June 1925, and 59245 in May 1926.

As noted in Locobase 14011, South Porto Rico Sugar Company's CR was based in the Dominican Republic, but sent its cane across the strait to Puerto Rico where the Guanica Centrale processed it. These oil-burning Consolidations were big enough to undertake common-carrier freight service. They had a moderate amount of superheater area and their cylinders were served by 11" (279 mm) piston valves.

Their railway had relatively gentle 8 degree curves (radii of 717 feet/219 metres) and maximum grades of just 1 1/4%, although that incline continued for a full seven miles (11.3 km).

The 12, which was produced six years later, weighed a suprising 128,000 lb (58,060 kg) more on the drivers and 146,000 lb (66,225 kg) on all five axles. Locobase cannot account for so substantial a weight increase, although he does note that the boiler jacket in 12 was made of iron rather than the steel of the earlier engines. The 14 just about split the difference a year later, coming in at 124,000 lb (56,246 kg) adhesion and 142,000 lb (64,410 kg) for the whole engine.

14 would later operate on the San Ysidro.