PRESERVED ORENSTEIN & KOPPEL STEAM LOCOMOTIVES


LOCATION outside Neuquén station, Rio Negro province, Argentina
RAILWAY NUMBER
RAILWAY
WHEEL ARRANGEMENT Bt
HORSE POWER 30
GAUGE 600mm as built. Reported by R.Bude as now 1000mm.
BUILDER O&K
BUILDER’S NUMBER 1861
YEAR BUILT 1906
PREVIOUS 
   RAILWAYS AND NUMBERS 
the O&K archives simply record that this loco was delivered to Arthur Koppel for Argentina. It most probably was employed, if not at first, on the Rio Negro dam construction scheme.
CONDITION Poor
PHOTO BY Jorge Waddell
PLACE AND DATE Neuquén, February 1992
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