Steam and world history. During the invasion of The Bay of Pigs in 1961 cuban president Fidel Castro set up a headquarter on sugarcentral Australia. Later the remains of a shot down B 26 plane (in... (more)

A crossing in the sugarfields. Engine 1716 (Henschel 1913) arrives with a empty train, while 1513 (Baldwin 1920) is ready to departure with a 1000-tons train loaded with sugarcanes.

According to cuban law cars must wait for the train - even at a highway crossing like this. Only warning is the lady with the flag. The old car is a Oldsmobile of 1957. The locomotive a Baldwin of... (more)