Cuba

From the balcony of our Casa Particular

A vast necropolis of white marble in the baking sun. If your family doesn't pay the bills, your bones are dug up and carted away in blue plastic bins. A cemetery worker showed me this - bins full of skulls, arm bones, leg bones, decaying away. He invited me to take a picture - I declined.

In the park next to the Havana train terminal (which is currently closed, and undergoing renovation), I found this fine consolidation done up in a special color scheme to honor Los Van Van - one of Cuba's postrevolutionary hit musical groups. havana-live.com/noticias/inauguran-monumento-los-van-van-la-habana

Serial number 33067, built by Baldwin in the United States in 1908. Originally the "Obdulio Morales" on the Central Narcisca railway in the province of Sancti Spiritus. Gauge is approximately 3 feet.

Everywhere you go, it is evident the housing stock on Cuba is in a sad state.

Habana Vieja

Havana, Cuba