Guayaquil 0-4-0 Locomotives in Ecuador

Class 1 (Locobase 11374)

Data from "Steam Motors for Street Service", Railway and Locomotive Engineering,, Vol 23, No. 2 (February 1910), p. 66. For the ECU, see Allen Morrison, "The Tramways of GUAYAQUIL Ecuador", presented on the Web at [] . RLE acknowledged that by this time in the development of street railways, "Electricity has pretty nearly monopolized the street railway field." The tramway for which these were produced converted from horsecars by adopting the "steam dummy" produced by both Porter (12) and Orenstein & Koppel (4). Porter's was a tiny motor with a vertical boiler.

The result was only a partial success, according to Morrison: "The public was happy to see fewer animals on the streets, but did not like hot, noisy, smoky locomotives running near their homes. Newspapers and magazines reported numerous accidents and complaints. The caption on this cartoon announces: "Another noisy new monster has arrived to puff through our streets" [Patria, Guayaquil, 3/1909]"

They were soon phased out in favor of the electric trams that were not long in being adopted.