Re: Cuban Steam Harvest last season?

James,
Thanks for the confirmation on the 0-6-0. I was pretty sure it was an 0-6-0 and not just a 2-6-0 minus the lead truck. It looks very much like the Rafael Freyre 0-6-0's. No sign of the Vulcan 2-6-0, in fact much has vanished from here. The standard gauge 1704 is in the shop (see my first post) but the 1510 & 1511 are not there. However, stuff moves around in Cuba a great deal. We did not visit Osvaldo Sanchez, knowing it to be closed, but a friend did and found narrow gauge 2-6-0 #1310 dumped there, but he had seen it running at Manalich in 2001!
The Manning Wardle mechanism is under a diesel "critter" while the Jefe has recently salvaged the boiler, side tanks and cab from the ditch behind the shops. He showed me photos of it on its side, barely visible in the weeds. It is now up on blocks in the yard. He also had photos of the engine in service as Havana & Matanzas #440.
In fact, we met the Jefe when one of our group was looking at the boiler and the Jefe came over to talk to him. We got a tour of the shop and a look at the "Volcano" as a result. The Volcano is a 2-4-0, but whether it was built that way or not isn't clear. The smokebox front says "The Miniature Railway Company - 1902 - Brooklyn, New York". This company was the actual builder of the Cagney's engines during this era.