Trinidad Branch of the Cuba Railroad, April 1925
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Channel: Speed Graphic Film and Video · 2018 · Autos & Vehicles
In the spring of 1925, Movietone cameraman Fernando Delgado spent about a month in Cuba taking newsreel footage. One of the sights he filmed were trains on a branch of the Cuba Railroad that went inland from Casilda and Trinidad through the Santa Rosa Valley. I believe that the Santa Rosa is part of Valle de los Ingenios, or Valley of the Sugar Mills, now a UNESCO world heritage site. The original film was silent, so I have added as music Heitor Villa-Lobo's Little Train of the Caipira. This piece is about Brazilian trains, not Cuban ones, but it I thought it fit the film pretty nicely anyway. If you anything about the ten-wheeler locomotives seen in this film, please add a comment.
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