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Steam & Excursion > A Horse With No NameDate: 10/27/24 18:54 A Horse With No Name Author: BoilingMan An 0-8-6-0T? Yep. And what's more: It's an outside frame narrow gauge 0-8-6-0 (Meter Gauge). More icing: It's a rack engine! I don't think this wheel arrangement ever got a proper name.
Kitson & Meyer (UK) built 3 of these beasties for the Argentine Transandine & Chilean Transandine Railways (FCTA) in 1907 to tackle their 8% grade in the Andes. I'd have loved to have seen these guys in action! SR I saw this beauty in Santiago a few weeks ago. Photo 4 shows a short section of the rack track displayed in front of the locomotive. Date: 10/27/24 18:55 Re: A Horse With No Name Author: BoilingMan Date: 10/27/24 19:06 Re: A Horse With No Name Author: refarkas Amazing!!!
Bob Date: 10/27/24 20:07 Re: A Horse With No Name Author: Hillcrest It's so cool and weird, I had to know more. It reads like the front engine is fixed and the rear articulates? They also say a sister, 3348 was restored to operation in 2013? Thanks for the photos
Cheers, Dave Date: 10/28/24 07:47 Re: A Horse With No Name Author: BAB Nice shot hope your trip out of the US brings more like it.
Date: 10/28/24 07:56 Re: A Horse With No Name Author: MaryMcPherson If it's a horse with no name, we could call it America.
Mary McPherson Dongola, IL Diverging Clear Productions Date: 10/28/24 14:55 Re: A Horse With No Name Author: sf1010 What in the world is the valve gear? Rear looks kinda Walschaerts-ish, but the front doesn't look like anything I recognize at all.
There is more info here https://www.railpictures.net/photo/737116/ Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/28/24 20:56 by sf1010. Date: 10/30/24 12:36 Re: A Horse With No Name Author: masterphots Hillcrest Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > It's so cool and weird, I had to know more. It > reads like the front engine is fixed and the rear > articulates? They also say a sister, 3348 was > restored to operation in 2013? Thanks for the > photos > > Cheers, Dave Not true. Still rusting (under cover though) at Fepasa's Los Andes shops. Couple million would get her running and FCP would let it run on their 20 mile line to Rio Blanco |