B&R Videos - Vol.179: A Cuban Steam Holiday

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Released 2013. 60 minutes. Colour. Cuba was one of the few countries in the world where large numbers of industrial steam locomotives could been seen in daily use into the late 1990s. Although steam power was eliminated from the main lines in the 1950s, it remained in use for many years on the sugar mill railways. Ron Davies visited the island on a number of occasions between 1995 and 1999 to record all this steam activity on Super- 8mm cameras with the ability to record sound. Locomotives featured in this film come from builders such as Alco, Baldwin, and Rogers. There are a variety of engines including 2-6-0s and 2-8-0s moving cane from the fields, whilst 0-4-0T, 2-4-2T, and other tank engines shunt cane wagons to the crusher. There is footage of large fireless locos. The video includes street running, shed scenes, multiple gauge railway level crossings and many trains passing by at speed both loaded and empty.