From: gl4317@yahoo.com

In article <7d7828f9-4ef0-46d1-b9e9-ba81dca40447@googlegroups.com>,
 CJB  wrote:

> Does anyone know what the engine is and where it was built? It would have
> been to the original 3'6" gauge.


To me, it doesn't look like something the major USA builders were
building.

If you look closely, you will see that the cab floor, bottom of the
tender, and running boards that run along the side of the boiler to the
front of the locomotive, and then across the front of the locomotive,
are all at the same level.

At that time, USA locomotive builders tended to build locomotives with
all this on different levels.  Take a look, for example, at a Manchester
Locomotive Works product from 1885:

http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/photos/shortline_steam/NBR.htm

The cab sides and running board are positioned above the top of the
driving wheels, and then come to and end.  To get to the platform across
the front of the locomotive, you have to climb downward.  The tender
platform is at a much different level than the bottom of the cab frame,
and the cab floor is actually dropped between the driving wheels.

Those features of this locomotive from Barbados look a bit to me more
like contemporary British built locomotives built for export.  For
example, a 3 ft 6 inch gauge 1870s era Sharp Stewart built for Indonesia:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/markcarter/7451766818/

I have seen a few engravings of locomotives built in Canada for export
that looked a bit like a mixture of USA practice and British practice,
and it could be one of those as well.

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