PRESERVED ORENSTEIN & KOPPEL STEAM LOCOMOTIVES
LOCATION | Valle Hermoso station, Cordoba province, Argentina |
RAILWAY NUMBER | 11 |
RAILWAY | Ledesma sugar factory, Jujuy province |
WHEEL ARRANGEMENT | Bt |
HORSE POWER | 140 |
GAUGE | 1000mm |
BUILDER | O&K |
BUILDER’S NUMBER | 9414 |
YEAR BUILT | 1920 |
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CONDITION | moderate, stored out of doors |
PHOTO BY | MM |
PLACE AND DATE | Valle Hermoso, 25th March 1998 |
NOTES | Vale Hermoso, a few km south of La Falda on the old Cordoba North Western Railway line from Cordoba to Cruz del Eje, was for some years the site of a tourist line, the Expresso 900, which employed two O&K locos, 4141 and 4004. A small museum in the old station buildings has a few photos of the line when it was working in the 1970s. This line closed several years ago, but in 1998 three O&K metre gauge locos from Ledesma sugar factory were found on the station site. Two, 10092 and 9908, are semi-derelict, but 9414 has been cosmetically restored. All three shunted the metre gauge connection to the F.C. General Belgrano in Ledesma. |