| We exchanged photographs. He went me
prints of his early photos and I sent prints of Brazilian
locomotives which had been built in the United States. He
was an excellent draftsman and made scale drawings of
locomotives put together in Brazil. He had started as an
engineering apprentice with the Paulista Railway which
was the best operated of the Brazilian owned and operated
lines. Later he worked for the Matarazo organization
which operated both large farms and a diverse set of
industrial plants. Later we combined his knowledge of the
locomotives operating on Brazilian railroads with my data
from overseas builders. He had
sent 4 x 5 prints of his photos. When viewing these I had
the idea of publishing these, to record for posterity the
Brazilian steam age. This turned out to be a difficult
task. The first publisher who said he was interested did
not want to advance the money for publishing costs and
stalled for almost 10 years while he tried to get someone
else to put up the money. Finally I decided to do the
entire job myself and retrieved the manuscript and 8 x 10
enlargements of Carlheinz's photos (see below an exemple,
the Alco-Cooke nrº 3 of EFPP)
Unfortunately the whole
time period took nearly 20 years. It was with great
sadness I learned that Carlheinz had died during November
1988 with one of the four volumes of Brazilian Steam
Album still in the preparation stage. Below, one pic in
EFPP Railway, with other Brazilian Railway Fans (fábio
Dardes, Sergio Romano, Nelson Lima and others)
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