PRESERVED ORENSTEIN & KOPPEL STEAM LOCOMOTIVES


LOCATION Provincial penal headquarters, Calle 6 & 33, La Plata, Argentina
RAILWAY NUMBER
RAILWAY penal colony at Sierra Chica
WHEEL ARRANGEMENT Bt
HORSE POWER 20
GAUGE 700mm
BUILDER O&K
BUILDER’S NUMBER 13007
YEAR BUILT 1937
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CONDITION good, not in working order
PHOTO BY MM
PLACE AND DATE La Plata, 29th March 1998
NOTES Buenos Aires province has a penal colony at Sierra Chica, which ha a narrow gauge railway serving stone quarries. 13007 was one of the locos which worked there, and is now displayed in front of the provincial headquarters in La Plata. A similar loco, O&K 9313, is preserved at Sierra Chica.