GLR #40's origins??

Gentlemen,
I spent three hours today looking through the Baldwin Work Orders/Spec Sheets.
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6 Reels of Microfiche, 3 Volumes on each, 350+ orders in each volume, 2 to 10 pages per order.
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I couldn't find a sheet that corresponded to GLR #40 based on what I know of the engine, though there are a couple of more reels to be searched. (The librarian had to throw me out at closing time.)
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#40 has 16” cylinders, and is a Consolidation, therefore carries the Baldwin classification of begin a 10-26E
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I could only find four 36” gauge 10-26E built in the 1919-1920 period, all of which went to Cuba.
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Now there was some debate as to who the #40 was built for. The “Guatemala Railway Co.” didn’t turn up anything that matched. “Ferrocarilles Internacionales de Central America” also didn't exactly work. Though by the 1940s Baldwin was entering the proper names for foreign railroads, but in the early days they “Americanized” them. I found two 10-26E class engines built for the “International Railway of Central America” as their #100 and #101. Both built in 1924 to drawing spec #63. They’re the same class as the #40, but with 40” drivers on an 11’ rigid wheel base, 16 ½” bore, and a 56” diameter boiler.
Please let me speculate for a moment.
My first thought was what if one of these engines was the #40 and the specs I had been told weren’t correct. Nah! You guys know how to measure wheel diameters and such. So my next thought was that these engines are a little bigger than the #40, bought by the same railroad, perhaps they liked what they had but wanted more power?
So I looked deep into the three pages of specs on these engines, and there was what I was looking for, and I quote:
“Details, as far a practicable, to be the same as for” 10-26E #393
So my best guess is that #40 was built for the "Ferrocarilles Internacionales de Central America" aka the "International Railroad of Central America", and carries the class designation of 10-26E #393.
This mystery can be solved by the shop crews at the Loop. Baldwin always stamped their engines with the class designation. 10-26E #393 should be found stamped on just about every part. Probably found most easily on the side rods. But care must be taken to check in multiple places as some parts may have been swapped off of another engine.
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Can anyone at the Loop please check this???
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IF correct, then I suspect the #40 to have been built to Spec. Drawing #56, which means a 10’ 6” diving wheel base, a 18’ 1” overall engine wheel base, a 54” diameter boiler, 25” diameter steam dome on the boiler shell, and 28” diameter sand domes, 32” diameter drive wheel centers and came from the factory painted in style #291 which was “Olive Green and Aluminum” " /> (I'm guessing the paint spec on the fact that the two later engines were ordered that way.)
Thanks,
Curtis F.
PS. I plan to go back to the library in a couple of weeks to continue the search for the Work Order/Spec sheet for the #40. Then the plan is to check the DeGolyier to see if any blueprints for the engine yet survive. " />