Midland Uruguay 2-6-0 Locomotives in Uruguay

Class B1 (Locobase 4813)

According to the Circulo de Estudios Ferrovarios del Uruguay (CEFU) website ([]), this small class of Moguls came to the MUR and its successor the Central Uruguay Railway over more than 2 decades. Three were delivered by Beyer, Peacock, & Co (bldr # 3009-3011) in 1889. After 1899, the MUR formed part of the Central Uruguay Railway (CUR), to which another 2 came from Beyer's in 1905 (4744-4745), 2 more were delivered by Hudswell Clarke in 1906 (778-779), and 1 more came from Beyer in 1910 (5394). Immediately after this last small Mogul, Beyer's began work on a contract for 8 much larger 2-6-0s of the N1 class (see that entry).

Some B1 remained in service into the 1990s, with N17 still being on call for switching duties.

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Class unknown (Locobase 20433)

Data from "Powerful New Engines for the Midland Uruguay Railway", Railway Times, Volume LXXXIX [89], No 19 (12 May 1906), p. 605.

This pair of goods Moguls were built to the specification of consulting engineers Messrs. Livesey, Son & Henderson, then employed by the Midland Uruguay Company. The product's profile has some proportion issues. The cab seems too tall for the boiler and squared-off Belpaire firebox, the thimble steam dome too small, the capped stack a bit too far back in the extended smokebox. But most disconcerting of all is the American-designed electric headlight perched on top of the smokebox ahead of the stack and sheathed in a bell-shaped casing taller than the stack itself.