Is there a source on the web of specific locations of Cuban steam?? My company has lots of contacts in the Carribean basin that do business with Cuba, and I am friendly with enough of them that a few inquiries might be made on behalf of a few engines. However, with intermediaries, some "facilitation fees" are quite common and necessary. It's a longshot, but intriguing enough to tease the imagination. Like Jim Wrinn, I am especially interested in that SR 2-6-0 if anyone has a location. AND, I'll match whatever BBQ and Cheerwine offer Jim throws out there!


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> Is there a source on the web of specific
> locations of Cuban steam??

Not on the web that I know of, but Britain's Industrial Railway Society published a roster book of Cuban steam in 1997 that remains the definitive work on the topic. See the last book on the "Foreign Books" list at the link below.

The Brits have been pretty good at documenting the last of Cuban steam, but preliminary reports are that they may make more off of foreign steam tourists than sugar this year--very bad harvest, very low sugar prices, etc.



Industrial Ry. Soc. publications
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Also, try this site besides the one linked below:

http://www.worldsteam.com/world_of_steam_cuba.htm

Rob Dickinson's site

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As others have pointed out, there are websites with trip reports that let you go through and build your own mill-by-mill roster; past issues of the Continental Railway Journal featured a roster.

But, may I also recommend my "Surviving World Steam Locomotive" CD-ROM. It includes not only the latest reported location and condition of steam locomotives in Cuba, but from around the world as well (19,000+ total). And you can search and sort it any number of ways.

The latest copy includes pictures of 33 steamers in Cuba. I also send out update CD-ROMs which include the latest updated database, 200 new pictures, and an "Update Wizard" program that transfers the pictures from your existing database to the new database before it is replaced.

I hope the editors of RYPN don't mind me mentioning it, but this type of serious research is exactly what it was designed for, at what I think is very reasonable price.

-James Hefner
Hebrews 10:20a

Surviving World Steam Locomotives

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