Agricola del Tlahualilo 0-4-4 Locomotives in Mexico

Class 3 (Locobase 11480)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University Vol 26, p. 24. Works numbers were 22686-22687 in August 1903. See also Lourdes Romero Navarete, El Rio Nazas y los derechos de agua en Mexico: conflicto y negociacion en el torno de la democracia, 1878-1939 (Hidalgo y Matamoros: Centro de Investigacion y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia Social, 2007), pp. 68-71 et seq.

Tlahualilo de Zaragoza is located due south of Texas's Big Bend and in the same latitude as the national border where it meets the Gulf. One of the key manmade features of this desert region was an irrigation canal that diverted water to its cotton fields. The CAT was founded in 1885 in the state of Durango and eventually oversaw the cultivation of 44,000 hectares (105,000+ acres) of cotton. Its output came to only slightly less than half of all the raw cotton consumed nationally by Mexican textile mills.

The locomotive was to be painted olive brown and aluminum and the tank was lettered "T y O de D".