Possibly the last photo of this engine. Several ware lined up, on rails, on a street in Havana. There was a gang with a torch making their way along them cutting them up. Slightly surreal as they ... (more)

Interurban car nĀ°3008 is being serviced in the Hershey shed for a next trip to Santa Cruz del Norte. This interurban car came to Hershey from Brill at the end of the first world war.

Interurban car nĀ°3021 is leaving Hershey. This unit was converted to electric service by Hershey shop crews from an old American heavyweight coach. Air pollution did not seem to be an issue in Cu... (more)

A passenger train to Havana makes a short stop at the Guareiras station. The locomotive 61611 has been built in 1974 in the USSR by Kolomna. These engines were also very popular in the eastern blo... (more)

The crew of the mogul number 1103 (a Baldwin from 1920) is proud to pose in front of their engine for the photo.

Number 1808 is arriving at the central Cuba Libre with a loaded cane train. This engine has been built by Baldwin in 1927 for this mill.

The grade from the sugar mill to one of the nearby loading point is very steep. The little engines had to work very hard to overcome it. The show made by these locomotives was just majic!

Photographed at the mill weighbridge in March 1996, NĀ° 1138 (built by Baldwin in 1908) was a welcome sight for railfans as Simon Bolivar mill had not been in use for the previous few seasons.

NĀ°1530 is a Baldwin locomotive from 1925. It is seen here storming out into the fields with a long train of empties.

With the amount of oil leaking from the fuel tank of NĀ° 1122 there is little chance of the motion seizing through lack of lubrication. This little switcher has been built by Porter in 1909.

Meeting between an iron horse and a normal horse at the Jose Smith Comas sugar mill.

Cuba received several used locomotives from sugar mills in Hawaii that shut down their railroad operations in the 1940's and 50's, including the yellow and green GE centercab disel unit seen here.... (more)

The 1205 from the Osvaldo Sanchez sugar mill is the first (and certainly the last) steam locomtive with a wheel arrangement of 0-4-4 T that I have ever seen! And it was in steam ... This funny eng... (more)

The rail systems at Obdulio Morales and the adjacent Simon Bolivar mill were part of a much larger public railway which connected the towns of Caibarian, some 20 miles west along the coast, with C... (more)

Number 1306 is Baldwin from 1912. In March 2000, the locomotive was shunting in the yard.