A Tale of Two Alcos


Dumped locomotives at Cuba’s George Washington Sugar Mill in Villa Clara Province on Tuesday 26th April 1988. The veteran on the left is an Alco Schenectady 2-8-0 of 1919, complete with wooden buffer beam, and on the right an 0-6-0T which formally worked for the United Railways of Havana and was built by Alco’s Brooks Works in 1916.


Size: 3720px × 2470px
Location: Cuba, North America,
Photo credit: © Colin Garratt / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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