Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago (, ), officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is a twin island country that is the southernmost nation of the West Indies in the Caribbean. It is situated south of Grenada off the northern edge of the South American mainland, off the coast of northeastern Venezuela. It shares maritime boundaries with Barbados to the northeast, Grenada to the northwest, Guyana to the southeast, and Venezuela to the south and west. The island of Trinidad was a Spanish colony from the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1498 until Spanish governor Don José María Chacón
2-8-6 the Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad; #25 "Alpine", #26 "Rico", #27 "Roaring Fork" and #28 "Denver". They were narrow gauge locomotives of gauge. Some were later sold to the Burlington and Northwestern Railway, a narrow gauge subsidiary of the CB&Q operating in Iowa. 2-8-6 In the Whyte notation for describing steam locomotive wheel arrangement, a 2-8-6 is a locomotive with a two-wheel leading truck, eight driving wheels, and a six-wheel trailing truck. All 2-8-6 locomotives constructed have been 2-8-6T tank locomotives of the Mason Bogie pattern. Other equivalent classifications are: UIC classification: 1D3 (also known as German classification and