Calamba Sugar Estate 0-6-2 Locomotives in Philippines

Class Emma (Locobase 14748)

Data from DeGolyer, Vol 63, pp. 219 and Vol 72, pp. 252+. See Segundo Diaz Labayen, "Sugar Manufacture at the Calamba Sugar Estate, Philippine Islands", Louisian Planter and Sugar Manufacturer, Vol LVII, No 9 (26 August 1916), p. 140. See also A History of Canlubang, [] (last accessed 3 July 2013). Works numbers were 54252 in January 1921 and 57798 in June 1924.

Unlike many of the Philippines' sugar companies, which were clustered on the island of Negros, Calamba's sugar estate lay not far from Manila in Luzon. Its holding included 24,750 acres (10,000 ha) of land of which about half was suitable for cane production. It was established in 1912 by a group of American investors. Grinding its first sugar cane in 1914, the plantation was run for the Calamba Sugar Company by Louis Weinzheimer. According to the Jose Yulo site, Weinzheimer planted thousands of coconut trees on the less hospitable western edges of the property to reduce erosion.

On 15 August 1941, reading the ominous signs of coming war, the Americans sold their holdings to Vincent Madrigal. He renamed it for the nearby town of Canlubang. After the war and its devastation, Madrigal sold the plantation and mill to Jose Yulo in 1948.

Five months later, the Japanese army landed on Luzon

The radial plantation saddle tanks were designed for multi-fuel operation, burning alcohol or easily converted to burn either coal or oil. The second engine's name was Santa Rosa.