
{"id":311171,"date":"2024-10-11T19:14:08","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T23:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=311171"},"modified":"2024-10-11T19:14:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T23:14:08","slug":"cubas-railway-museum-without-witnesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/cubas-railway-museum-without-witnesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba\u2019s Railway Museum, without witnesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I discovered steam locomotives at a very young age thanks to my friend Wildy, a photographer who loves these enormous machines. Wildy, in addition to helping me \u2014 along with many others \u2014 take my first steps in photography, introduced me to the subject of trains, about which he is passionate. As far as I know, he is even a meticulous model builder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since then, without becoming a fanatic or a scholar, in my wanderings through life, whenever I can, I photograph one of these enormous artifacts, extinct colossi like dinosaurs. Meeting a group of retired Germans, former railway workers, on a photography assignment some time ago and experiencing their passion for steam locomotives up close, helped me appreciate them a little more.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/museo-del-ferrocarril-alejandro-ernesto-2024-4.jpg\" alt=\"Interior of one of the locomotives in the courtyard. Fascinating contrast between wood and rusty metal. Photo: Alejandro Ernesto.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interior of one of the locomotives in the courtyard. Fascinating contrast between wood and rusty metal. Photo: Alejandro Ernesto.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thanks to the sensitivity of the late City Historian, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oncuba.news\/tag\/eusebio-leal\/\"><b>Saint Eusebio of Havana<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, as I like to call him, at the beginning of the century it was decided to rescue steam locomotives throughout the country, mainly those belonging to sugar mills. Many of them, over 100 years old, continued to transport sugar cane during the milling season.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/museo-del-ferrocarril-alejandro-ernesto-2024-11.jpg\" alt=\"Detail of one of the restored locomotives. Photo: Alejandro Ernesto.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detail of one of the restored locomotives. Photo: Alejandro Ernesto.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today many of these machines are on display at Cuba\u2019s Railway Museum. A few restored ones are on display inside the building, and most are out in the open, on rails and in the weeds, proudly displaying a sheet of rust, twisted metal, worm-eaten wood and leaky boilers. Traces of the many years that they were a vital part of the once powerful Cuban sugar industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/museo-del-ferrocarril-alejandro-ernesto-2024-1.jpg\" alt=\"A few locomotives, already restored, are preserved inside the museum. Photo: Alejandro Ernesto.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A few locomotives, already restored, are preserved inside the museum. Photo: Alejandro Ernesto.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Located in the former Cristina railway station, very close to the Cuatro Caminos Market in Havana, the Cuba\u2019s Railway Museum was opened in 2000 to display surviving equipment from the golden age of trains and railways, from times when these machines were part of something so great that it gave rise to the phrase \u201cwithout sugar there is no country.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/museo-del-ferrocarril-alejandro-ernesto-2024-5.jpg\" alt=\"Steam locomotives in the courtyard of Cuba\u2019s Railway Museum. Photo: Alejandro Ernesto.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steam locomotives in the courtyard of Cuba\u2019s Railway Museum. Photo: Alejandro Ernesto.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The jewel in the museum\u2019s crown is, without a doubt, \u201cLa Junta de Fomento,\u201d popularly known as \u201cLa Junta,\u201d declared a National Monument in 1998. Built in 1842 in New Jersey, it is the oldest preserved locomotive in the country. As far back as 1843, it was already traveling through the Cuban countryside. Today, at 181 years old and out of service, it still has many of its original parts.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/museo-del-ferrocarril-alejandro-ernesto-2024-13.jpg\" alt=\"Steam boiler of one of the restored locomotives. Photo: Alejandro Ernesto.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steam boiler of one of the restored locomotives. Photo: Alejandro Ernesto.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cuba\u2019s Railway Museum was restored in 2019 to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the founding of Havana. The saving hand is evident. Inside the once neat and painted station, several recently restored locomotives are on display to the public, among which, as soon as you enter, \u201cLa Junta\u201d stands out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the human absence is striking. I was there for more than two hours, during which only a guard who was dozing at the entrance, bored to death, and I were present. When I asked him, he told me that it was like that every day, that very few people came to the museum.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/museo-del-ferrocarril-alejandro-ernesto-2024-14.jpg\" alt=\"Detail of a Baldwin locomotive, manufactured in Philadelphia, United States. Photo: Alejandro Ernesto.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detail of a Baldwin locomotive, manufactured in Philadelphia, United States. Photo: Alejandro Ernesto.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For me, the most valuable thing in the museum \u2014 and what I photographed the most \u2014 is in the courtyard, exposed to the fury of the elements. In this sort of train cemetery, most of the rescued heritage, not yet restored, is displayed. Gigantic steam locomotives that refuse to die and await the arrival of better times to rise like a Phoenix from rust and oblivion; old warriors that barely survive, without witnesses.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/museo-del-ferrocarril-alejandro-ernesto-2024-3.jpg\" alt=\"Thanks to Eusebio Leal, at the beginning of the century it was decided to rescue steam locomotives throughout the country, mainly those belonging to sugar mills. Photo: Alejandro Ernesto.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thanks to Eusebio Leal, at the beginning of the century it was decided to rescue steam locomotives throughout the country, mainly those belonging to sugar mills. Photo: Alejandro Ernesto.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/museo-del-ferrocarril-alejandro-ernesto-2024-8.jpg\" alt=\"The beauty of rust. Photo: Alejandro Ernesto.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The beauty of rust. Photo: Alejandro Ernesto.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/museo-del-ferrocarril-alejandro-ernesto-2024-10.jpg\" alt=\"Machines are on display at Cuba\u2019s Railway Museum. Photo: Alejandro Ernesto.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Machines are on display at Cuba\u2019s Railway Museum. Photo: Alejandro Ernesto.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/museo-del-ferrocarril-alejandro-ernesto-2024-9.jpg\" alt=\"Fascinating iron ruin. Photo: Alejandro Ernesto.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fascinating iron ruin. Photo: Alejandro Ernesto.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/museo-del-ferrocarril-alejandro-ernesto-2024-2.jpg\" alt=\"Contrast between a restored locomotive and others waiting their turn. Photo: Alejandro Ernesto.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Contrast between a restored locomotive and others waiting their turn. Photo: Alejandro Ernesto.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/museo-del-ferrocarril-alejandro-ernesto-2024-6.jpg\" alt=\"Many of them, over 100 years old, continued to transport sugar cane during the milling season. Photo: Alejandro Ernesto.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many of them, over 100 years old, continued to transport sugar cane during the milling season. Photo: Alejandro Ernesto.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/museo-del-ferrocarril-alejandro-ernesto-2024-12.jpg\" alt=\"Old locomotives at the Railway Museum. Photo: Alejandro Ernesto.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Old locomotives at the Railway Museum. Photo: Alejandro Ernesto.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever I can, I photograph these enormous artifacts, extinct colossi like dinosaurs. 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