O&K1696

PRESERVED ORENSTEIN & KOPPEL STEAM LOCOMOTIVES

LOCATION Av. Bartolomé Mitre, Posadas, Misiones province, Argentina

RAILWAY NUMBER

RAILWAY unknown

WHEEL ARRANGEMENT Bt

HORSE POWER 20

GAUGE 1435mm

BUILDER O&K

BUILDER’S NUMBER 1696

YEAR BUILT 1906

PREVIOUS
RAILWAYS AND NUMBERS delivered new to Arthur Koppel for export

CONDITION moderate, plinthed in the open air

PHOTO BY R.G.Farr

PLACE AND DATE Posadas

NOTES the logs exhibited with the loco would suggest that the loco may have worked on one of the many quebracho and other forestry plantations in northern Argentina, but no details of where the loco worked are known.

LOCATION	Av. Bartolomé Mitre, Posadas, Misiones province, Argentina
RAILWAY NUMBER
RAILWAY	unknown
WHEEL ARRANGEMENT	Bt
HORSE POWER	20
GAUGE	1435mm
BUILDER	O&K
BUILDER’S NUMBER	1696
YEAR BUILT	1906
PREVIOUS RAILWAYS AND NUMBERS	delivered new to Arthur Koppel for export
CONDITION	moderate, plinthed in the open air
PHOTO BY	R.G.Farr
PLACE AND DATE	Posadas
NOTES	the logs exhibited with the loco would suggest that the loco may have worked on one of the many quebracho and other forestry plantations in northern Argentina, but no details of where the loco worked are known.