O&K9414

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

PREVIOUS
RAILWAYS AND NUMBERS

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.

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
PREVIOUS RAILWAYS AND NUMBERS
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.