Re: A day with 2'6'' gauge 2-8-0 number 1320 hauling sugar cane

Arriving at the cane loadout, the crew turned the engine on the wye and switched out three loaded cars of sugar cane from a long string of empties waiting to be loaded. This being on a Monday morning, the loading operations were getting underway with cane arriving from the fields. Most likely one or more of the other 2-8-0s under steam at the mill would bring in more cane loads later in the day. There were apparently plenty of empties at the loadout, as our train took the 5 empties we had brought up back to mill, which did make a better looking train for our charter.







Of course passing classic cars are one of the highlights of Cuba