"I stumbled into CaneSIG in my search for more info on Cuba's
Sugar lines. I may be the only American modeling the sugar trains of
Cuba? I've been building a "Garden Railroad" based on Cuba's narrow
gauge lines for 17 years, with RC live steam and an RC battery powered
Plymouth industrial diesel."
"I've never been to Cuba myself, but I managed to collect 11 videos, two books, and various magazine articles on Cuba's lines, to help and inspire me to build my railroad. It's still not complete. Everything is scratch built, except the engines. I build cane cars out of brass. (K&S Brass, out of Chicago, Ill.) They sit out on the railroad all year; ( the oldest ones for 16 years now.). The mill buildings are wood, and covered with corrugated beer and soda cans that I cut up and corrugate using a tube crimping tool."
"I always liked 'tropical' steam in such places as Cuba and Central America, those very last and almost forgotten survivors of another era..."
Viva Vapor!
Jim Petropulos
last updated: 9/07/08.