Time to resurrect this thread. My camera toting contact has posted some more pictures, he has now visited the dump by Huambo works. Previously we'd thought there might be up to 9 locomotives there (from a close study of Google Earth) but there are 25 including one of the Baldwin 4-8-0's and a load more Garratts. Some of the loco's show damage from explosives and looking at the photos I don't think Huambo works scrapped anything.

Link to pictures: http://s208.photobucket.com/albums/bb241/jamie_grieve/ and select "interesting iron"

Gavin;

Thank you very, very much for letting us know. Jamie Grieve did a great job photographing so much.

Some new numbers I spotted since I last visited your website are 303, 310, 318, 319, 320, and 405. I assume 405 is one of the 4-8-0s?

I wonder where the "plinthed" 0-4-0WT was found? Looks German built; so it is not the Hunslet at Lobito; perhaps the O&K at Luanda, or one of the two Krauss locomotives at Catumbela Sugar Factory, Catumbela?

Plus two steam cranes; the larger breakdown crane by Cowans and Sheldon. Plus two semi-portable steam engines, at least three ploughing engines, and a portable steam engine! Wow!

I need to approach Jamie with hat in hand about including some of these in a future update to my project. It certainly is a location few folks will visit. I would like to know more too, about where all the steam traction equipment was found.

405 is an 11 class 4-8-2. I think the other stuff is somewhere near the coast at a sugar mill.. I've attempted to add a table of CFB locos to my Angola survivors section - it gets updated when I've got new info (was attempting to scan some photos for a new section yesterday when the scanner died - imagine the aroma of electrical burning!)

If I ever get to meet Jamie the beers are on me!

BTW most of the pictures where taken at Huambo "dump" near the workshops