Central Los Canos 0-4-2 Locomotives in the USA

Class 1 (Locobase 13336)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University Volume 32, p.53. Works number was 33200 in February 1909.

Puerto-Rican sugar-plantation saddle tanker for the Guantanamo Sugar Company's 13 1/2-mile (21.7-km) narrow-gauge line. The specification requires the 1 to haul 12-15 short tons of "cars & lading" up a straight 1/2% grade with frictional resistance not to exceed 15 lb per ton (7.5 kg per tonne) and to control about twice as much train load heading downgrade.

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Class 12 (Locobase 15421)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University Vol 79. p. 60. Works number was 60195 in September 1927.

Locobase 13336 shows the first of these really small saddle tanks. When the Puerto Rican sugar mill ordered a second locomotive eighteen years later, they went for slightly more of everything: cylinder volume, tubes for more heating surface, and a larger firebox. All this was available for a mere two short tons (1,814 kg). Like the earlier engine, the 12 was challenged by curves with radii as tight as 50 feet (16 metres).