FC San Cristobal y Tucuman 0-6-0 Locomotives in Argentina

Class 28 (Locobase 7427)

Data from Titre Exposition universelle internationale de 1889 a Paris. Rapports du jury internationale. Auteur - Volume France. Ministere du Commerce, de l'industrie. Picard, Alfred, ed. Volume Groupe VI - -Outillage et precedes des industries mecaniques. Electricite (5e partie) Classes 60 a 63. Rapport sur le materiel des chemins de fer. p. 302 ([] (accessed 1 September 2005).

Although construction of most of the railways in Argentina was funded by British interests, who also owned and operated them, French investors managed to gain a toehold. This little tank supported one such line.

Locobase is pretty sure that these are the engines described in the [] article last accessed on 24 September 2009. The author notes that the two were purchased as 0-6-0Ts in 1889 (works numbers 2756-2757), but converted to 2-6-0s in 1898. They were sold to the FC de Central Chubut, which connected the far southern port of Puerto Madryn with the Welsh hinterland, and arrived at about the start of the First World War. They served that line until returned to what was now the FC de Central Norte (FCCN) in 1934.