Reluctant attitude

Despite all the difficulties imposed by the reluctant attitude of many lofty patrician, was moving forward, mile by mile, running from the sea. So at the end of 1840, from New York, top engineer Benjamin H. Nuevitas Wright on board the schooner Adrian with locomotives, cars and machines. Camagüey, many of the landowners who signed for the construction of the railroad, never fulfilled their commitment, others are not even signed, therefore, what is raised by this pathway was not sufficient to achieve rapid progress of the work, that's why the villager had to invest their assets and get the largest sums to the Junta de Fomento de La Habana and negotiating loans from the British capital. On Easter, 1841, to check the quality of works, Nuevitas met a group of 350 people, which, in the words of the villagers were "cream and cottage cheese, so that the truth will have very strong support today.." Indeed, on days 22, 27, 28 and 30 of December, there was a tour of four miles with a machine, two cars and sixty passengers on them.