Llano del Maipo 2-8-0 Locomotives in Chile

Class 6 (Locobase 13874)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University Volume 49, p. 179. See also the amigos del tren article at [] and an essay [], last accessed 16 February 2012. Works number was 40912 in November 1913.

As handy as the Moguls on this wine road (Locobase 13873) might have been, traffic levels clearly demanded more power. This Consolidation represented a substantial enlargement in all respects as it deployed almost double the adhesion weight, and 50% more tractive effort.

In 1925, ambitions for international connections long since abandoned, the Ll del M was transformed into an interurban line. Over the next several decades, its infrastructure would be integerated into the Santiago Metro system.