Peruvian Corp., Southern Railway 2-8-0 Locomotives in Peru

Class 60 (Locobase 12939)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University Volume 28, p. 263. See also Frederic M Halsey, Investments in Latin America and the British West Indies, Special Agents Series - No 169, United States Department of Commerce (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office,1918) pp. 329-330. Works numbers were 27605-27606 in February 1906.

Cross-compounds didn't figure very largely in Baldwin's order books, but as Samuel Vauclain once conceded, a commercial locomotive builder had to be ready to build anything for anyone.

The very specific requirements in the specs called for the locomotive to pull five cars, each loaded with 20 metric tons (24 short tons), but 15 metric tons each up a 3% grade at 12 mph. Its remit was "To run between Molindo["Mullen" in the original, "Mollendo" in Halsey's account] and Arequipa, a distance of 107 miles. Hgth [sic] above sea level 7500 ft. There is about 60 miles of floating or running without steam from Arequipa to Molindo [i.e., mostly downhill]. Longest single stretch of floating is 21 miles. For the above reason object to piston valves."

The line, designed and partially constructed by Henry Meiggs and completed by Henry Thorndyke, continued on 60-80 lb/yard (30-40 kg/m) rail up to Puno. This town--326 miles (525 km) from Mollendo, was the port for Lake Titicaca at an elevation of 12,585 feet (3,836 m). Thirty miles (48 km) further on at Juliaca, the Cuzco division headed north for 210 miles (338 km) and reached its highest point at 14,153 feet (4,314 m).

Class 80 (Locobase 4576)

Data from 1946 Beyer, Peacock catalogue hosted on Martyn Bane's website at [] (accessed 21 May 2006).

Batch #1534 (works# 6833) (Production data from The Beyer, Peacock production list -- [], last accessed 29 May 2006).

Locobase suspects that this locomotive and two others delivered in 1938 (6876) and 1939 (6876) were built to the same design. Like many Beyer, Peacock locomotives, this engine had a Belpaire firebox.