Cuban sugar mill diesels

[Justin Smith]

Does anyone know where I can get any info on some of the diesel engines used at the Heriberto Duquesne and Bartolome Maso sugar mills in Cuba ?When were they built what power are they etc.
We rode on them when we went to Cuba in March this year. I belives the H D locos are Brush 3ft gauge, and the B M ones Soviet standard gauge.
I think the Brush locos are 750bhp.

 

[Metrailway]

This might be a page about the Brush locos at H D:http://www.class47.co.uk/c47_feature_423.php

 

[Justin Smith]

This might be a page about the Brush locos at H D:http://www.class47.co.uk/c47_feature_423.php

Interesting page, though they're not the same diesels.
The locos at the Heriberto Duquesne mill were 3ft gauge, a picture is attached.

 

[LouJ]

I visited this mill in the late 1970s or early 1980s. Don't remember seeing any Brush diesels though. Try contacting the Continental Railway Circle - I am sure someone there will be able to help.

This might be a page about the Brush locos at H D

I saw one of the Class 47s sent new to Cuba languishing in a works at Havana. The Cubans were short of foreign currency to buy spares so they were grounded when some component failed. I think the fleet gradually declined as parts were stripped from failed locos. I wonder what finally happened to them? Also of interest were the diesel railcars that had identical set up in the cabs to Derby built first generation dmus! Outside they looked liked Budd railcars but were British on the inside.

 

[Justin Smith]

I've been able to track down some details of the Bartolome Maso locos, to a Russian Wikipedis page, using Google Translate gives :
Model TGM4
HP 750
Built from 1973 in Soviet Russia (Lyudinovskom loco works ? )
B B diesel hydraulic
Weight 80 tons ?
See attached pic