FC de Antioquia 4-6-2 Locomotives in Colombia

Class 33 (Locobase 12691)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University Volume 54, p. 312. Works numbers were 41677-41678 in September 1914.

This rare pair brought passenger power to the Antioquia, apparently in adequate measure for these were the only two Pacifics to serve the line. They shared their boiler design with the same railway's 1913 Consolidations (Locobase 14007).

As reported in Locobase 12221, a 1921 assessment spoke skeptically of the Colombian railway system, including the original trunk lines of the FC de A. Purl Lord Bell noted that change was coming for the Antioquia, p. 296: "Plans are now under way for the building of this road from Cartagena to Medellin, the construction work to be performed by the departments of Bolivar and Antioquia in their respective territories; the Bolivar section, to go by way of El Carmen ana Monteria, is now declared national and subsidized by the National Government. The building of this railway presents an opportunity for foreign capital, because the line will pass through a producing and potentially rich cattle and agricultural region capable of great development, and also a rich mining region farther to the south in Antioquia."