The history of metric gauge Texas type locomotives of the former Estrada de Ferro Central do Brasil - EFCB railroad is still little known. It is strange that almost nothing knows on one of the most fascinating steam locomotives that already run in Brazil. In general, the historians make reference to their performance in the Dona Teresa Cristina Railroad - EFDTC, where they concluded their career, and not in the Central. Even in the areas where they operated in the state of Minas Gerais it is more and more difficult to find somebody that can bring some innovation in the subject. The people that had the privilege of seeing them in operation and that lived together day by day with them no longer are many, and the official documents that tell their history ended if losing after the privatization of former Rede Ferroviaria Federal SA - RFFSA. But the destiny seems to want to help, therefore some documents that tell the history of those locomotives came to my hands by chance. It is with base in them that I produced this article.
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