Steam & Excursion > The Weekend Quiz

Seen here at Santa Fe in September of 1973, is one of fifteen Belpaire firebox Pacifics built for Argentina's Ferrocarril Nacional General Belgrano.

What made these locomotives unique?

This quiz is also on the International Board.

Cheers, Jack



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/27/12 20:38 by africansteam.

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I suppose that blue "bullseye" on the front of the boiler.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/27/12 20:35 by octrax.

octrax Wrote:
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> I suppose that blue "bullseye" on the front of the
> boiler.

No. That's the Argentine national flag "in the round", so to speak.

Cheers,
Jack

Was this one of the 4-6-2 Dante Porta converted to burn Rio Turbio coal?

CPengineer Wrote:
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> Was this one of the 4-6-2 Dante Porta converted to
> burn Rio Turbio coal?

Doubtful. That's an oil tank in the tender, where the coal would be carried on a coal-burner. Also, the stack looks like the OEM version, not Porta's larger-diameter type. But for the life of me, I can't remember what wasunique about these locomotives -- I must be getting *really* old - <sigh>... Were they perhaps the last meter-gauge Pacifics built?

Roger Lewis (airbrakegeezer)

airbrakegeezer Wrote:
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> CPengineer Wrote:
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But for the life of me, I
> can't remember what wasunique about these
> locomotives -- I must be getting *really* old -
> ... Were they perhaps the last meter-gauge
> Pacifics built?
>

You are getting warm, Roger. Rack your aging brain some more!

Cheers,
Jack

It certainly looks like a narrow gauge engine of some sort, but I don't know why that would be unique.

Only Lima-Hamilton steam locos in Argentina? Or....since it's long gone, Christina can't get her hands on it.

masterphots Wrote:
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> Only Lima-Hamilton steam locos in Argentina?
>

You got it Alan. They were among the last steam locomotives built by Lima-Hamilton, having come out of the works in 1948.

The very last Lima-Hamilton steam locomotive was Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 Berkshire No. 779, which was completed in 1949.

Cheers,
Jack



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 11/22/12 20:36 by africansteam.