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This is one of a series of pages showing my pictures of Cuban
narrow gauge steam at work in the closing years.
Obdulio Morales (Mill 418) was one of a pair of mills of
unusual 2'3½" gauge, east of Caibarién, its main field line being part of
a former common carrier railway. All the locomotives shown here are Baldwin
2-8-0s.
Click on a thumbnail to see a larger 750x500 (or
similar) image then use the back button or links to return here.
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My first visit here was with Chris and Steve on 18th
February 1996, we found 1333 brewing up near the shed.
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Later we were able to photograph it on patio duty.
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1420 was a bit of a hotchpotch, originally it had been a
3'0" gauge locomotive and hence a bit larger and by the time I
photographed it on empties on 28th February 1998, it had been rebuilt with
the frames of even larger 1542. Although it was potentially to be a
photogenic working, technical problems with it meant that we never got to
see it working on fulls.
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Returning to my first visit, 1366 was due out on the
line to the west (beyond Seibabo) and we caught it prior to departure.
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It was a very pleasant 'chase' back although the
condition of the road meant we had to be restrained, this was the train
soon after departure.
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This was the train climbing towards Jucarno after which
road and rail mostly went their separate ways to the mill.
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Click here
for the 'Those were the days' index page.
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