Preserved Steam in Brazil

We hear very little about preserved steam outside Europe and North America. Here's a snippet from Jose Beraldo in Brazil:

"I’m sending a picture taken on September 1993, of the 2-8-2 Schwarzkopf owned by ABPF - Associação Brasileira de Preservação Ferroviária (Brazilian Railway Preservation Society). The locomotive is meter gauge and is usually used to work the passenger trains along ABPF’s main line between Anhumas and Jaguariuna, pulling wooden cars mainly from the former Noroeste Rlw., Sorocabana Rlw. and Viação Ferrea do Rio Grande do Sul. With the arrival of two more engines, there are now seven active locos on the line while others are in the stationary line, waiting for reconstruction."

"I decided to send you this latest information about a new preservation project being carried out, this time focusing two steam engines of the former E.F. Central do Brasil.

Two engines stationed at the city of Cachoeira Paulista, were recently transferred to São Paulo, to be part of the Imigration Museum, whose building is sitting besides the broad gauge lines of the former Santos a Jundiaí Railway, near the Brás suburban station. The engines are BALDWIN 4-6-2, 3 cilinders, and Baldwin 0-6-0 Saddle Tank, both formerly stationed at Cachoeira Paulista as static displays. The 4-6-2, built in 1927 is in operating condition, as it was used some years ago to pull excursions along the broad gauge lines, but the 0-6-0 is being overhauled in Sorocaba(SP) and will be also put in working shape. The 4-6-2 is already sitting in the platform adjacent to the museum building, in São Paulo, while the 0-6-0 was trucked to Sorocaba for some boiler repairs.

Here I’m sending the pictures of both engines. The 4-6-0 was pictured during one of her last excursions in 1981, with a passenger train in Luz station in dowtown São Paulo, ready to depart to Jundiaí (SP). The 0-6-0 was snapped at Cachoeira Paulista, its former home. The photo of 4-6-0 is of my credit and the 0-6-0 was taken by friend and railfan Sergio Martire."