Our charter train climbs north out of the valley of the Rio Chubut, a few miles north of El Maiten. Irrigation has turned what was once an arid landscape into lush farmland.
Minaz #1530 is a Baldwin Mogul locomotive from 1925 that has been built new for this mill as #1. It is seen here storming out into the sugar cane fields with a long train of empties. As all the ot... (more)
Minaz #1357 from the Central Pepito Tey is a Baldwin from 1909. This locomotive has been built new for this mill and was named Aramao. It is seen here going out to the cane fileds with an empty ra... (more)
Minaz #1351 from the Central Gregorio Arlee Manalich is a Baldwin from 1917. It has been built for the Hermanos Ameijeiras mill and has been changed here in 1992.
Among Cuba most precious operable steam locomotive was this 30 inches gauge Baldwin 0-6-0 built in 1882 and here being fired up at the Central Rafael Freyre for our charter train. The well kept st... (more)
The Minaz Consolidation #1386 from the Rafael Freyre sugar mill is a Baldwin from 1919. This locomotive has been built for this mill as Santa Lucia (name of the Rafael Freyre mill before the revol... (more)
Here is a second view of former United States Army Transportation Corps S160 2-8-0 No 1734 taking water at Civitavecchia station with an 'express' from Rome to Pisa in the aftermath of World War I... (more)
Minaz ten-wheeler #1552 is shunting an empty train near the Ramon Ponciano sugar mill in the warn evening sun. This locomotive has seen better days in the past. Steam was leaking from every indivi... (more)
One of the 243 former United States Army Transportation Corps S160 2-8-0s that were taken into Italian State Railway stock after World War II takes water at Civitavecchia station with an 'express'... (more)
Minaz #1607 (a Baldwin Mogul from 1920) is returning to the mill with a laod of sugar cane.
Minaz #1714 (a Baldwin from 1920) highballs past the FCC Carlos Rojas station with a loaded cane train on its way to the Granma sugar mill.
Minaz #1321 (a Baldwin locomotive from 1913) is leaving the Potrerillo loading point with a loaded sugar train. Sister engine #1355 (a Baldwin locomotive from 1920) is helping to pull the heavy an... (more)
