PRESERVED ORENSTEIN & KOPPEL STEAM LOCOMOTIVES


LOCATION Valle Hermoso station, Cordoba province, Argentina
RAILWAY NUMBER 14
RAILWAY Ledesma sugar factory, Jujuy province
WHEEL ARRANGEMENT Ct
HORSE POWER 225
GAUGE 1000mm
BUILDER O&K
BUILDER’S NUMBER 10092
YEAR BUILT 1926
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CONDITION poor, many parts dismantled
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.