Mister Steele has asked the key question.
1. What are the individual prices (in US$) for each of the available steam locomotives and what in all does each price include (toools, builders plates, whistles, generators, pumps etc.).
2. What would be the estimated price to ship an engine (+ its tender) from the docks de la Habana?
3. Where would an engine go from there?
4. I also suggest one take-out shipping insurance from a company where the locomotive would land.
5. Can the locomotive be made US ready at that destination?
6. How much would it cost and how long would it take to make it US ready (physically and legally)?
Again, I suggest the financing medium be done with Letters of Credit (issuing and negotiating banks).