Lautaro Nitrate 0-6-2 Locomotives in Chile

Class 17 (Locobase 14518)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University Volume 54, p. 368.

Although it repeated most of the details of the earlier Lautaro tank shown in Locobase 12381, the 17 arrived with small changes in the firebox and a three-ton gain in weight. It tackled the 4% grades and curves of 100 metre (328 foot) radii.

Class 20 (Locobase 15189)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University Volume 66, p. 380. Works number was 51268 in February 1919.

Two years after the Lautaro took delivery of the 17 (Locobase 14518), the nitrate railway ordered another radial tank that had the same boiler and firebox, but significantly greater cylinder volume.

Class Lautaro (Locobase 12381)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University Volume 21, p 296. See also Jose ntonio Gonzalez-Pizarro, "Privatization Versus Public Funding on the Atacama Desert Railway v An Interpretation", archived at [],%20Signalling%20and%20Security%20in%20Railway/Chapter%203%20%20Privatization%20Versus%20Public%20Funding%20on%20the%20Atacama%20Desert%20Railway-An%20Interpretation.pdf. Works number was 17341 in January 1900.