Mina Loreto 0-4-2 Locomotives in Chile

Class 1 (Locobase 13072)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University Volume 30, p. 156. See also "The FC Mina Loreto" at the Railways of the Far South webpage ([]). Works number was 29719 in December 1906 and 44824 in January 1917.

Most tanks of this size and arrangement served sugar plantations, but the Punta Arenas operated at the extreme southern end of the South American continent. (The city was in fact 6,390 nautical miles from New York City.) The second locomotive, ordered eleven years later, was named Magallanes and put one short ton of weight on the drivers.

Class Loreto (Locobase 12468)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University Volume 23, p. 196. Works number was 18510 in December 1900

The Loreto went about as far south in the New World as a locomotive could go when it traveled to Punta Arenas. The Mina Loreto tramway served a thick belt of lignite by taking it to the port and the Loreto was guaranteed to haul 65 tons of that up a 2 1/4% grade.