PRESERVED ORENSTEIN & KOPPEL STEAM LOCOMOTIVES



LOCATION Once station, Buenos Aires, Argentina
RAILWAY NUMBER X5A
RAILWAY F.C. General Belgrano (see note below)
WHEEL ARRANGEMENT Bt
HORSE POWER 20
GAUGE 600mm as built, since rebuilt to 1000mm
BUILDER O&K
BUILDER’S NUMBER 4017
YEAR BUILT 1910
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CONDITION moderate, plinthed in the open air
PHOTO BY MM
PLACE AND DATE Once, April 1999
NOTES the suggestion that this loco is O&K 4176 (CRJ 98/486) can be dismissed, since 4017 is stamped several times on the motion. It is believed to have worked as a construction loco on the Belgrano metre gauge system, and X5 was its class designation.