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Welcome
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Ferroclub Argentino |
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| B r o a d g a u g e d i v i s i o n | |
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| Railfans from all over the world are welcome to the club. We open to the public every Saturday & Sundays, or on special dates. Also, we promote on arrangement visitors and tours on any date, which can include meals on the luxurious and last broad gauge wooden restaurant coach, locomotives in steam, etc. | |
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Beyer
Peacock, Vulcan Foundry, O&K,
Werkspoor, Baldwin, Metrocammel, etc. are some of the builders that supplied
material to Argentina for a period of nearly 100 years and which you can admire nowadays at our premises. These masterpieces can be seen every Saturday and Sunday, traveling a short distance from BA, at the Escalada branch of Ferroclub Argentino. |
| The exhibition, which comprises a whole range of rolling stock plus memorabilia from long gone years, are all in an area of 3 acres that were originally part of one of the biggest shops in Argentina, and includes parking, restrooms, buffet on an old dinning car, museum, library, HO modelling and souvenirs, plus a beautiful 10 1/4" gauge railway that traverses the wholepark and makes an inroad into our neighbours the Lanus University. | |
| Through links in this page, even
though its in spanish, you can plan a visit looking
at the maps, or/and admire the jewels in exhibition. Also a complete
list of vehicles on show is included in the site which you can easily
print. Our non-government railway preservation society is distributed in 4 premises around Buenos Aires, at Villa Lynch, Haedo, Tolosa and Escalada. You can link from this page to see what tresures they stock. You will be surprised! |
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| Rolling stock with a brief description/history of each |
| Locomotives in steam or in “compression-ignition” | |
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| Baldwin Lima Hamilton RF 615E (U.S.A) diesel Nº 5037 (ex 7037) works # 75892 of 1954. | |
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Fifty
one of these loco’s worked single-handed for 4 decades on the
Roca Railway.
Baldwin completely restored (May 2002) |
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| 2-8-0
Nº 4116. Light axle load freight
loco (12.5 tons) built in 1913 by Beyer Peacock U.K (Works # 5697) for the Buenos Aires Great Southern Rly. |
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It’s
class comprised 100 units. It was extensively rebuilt during
the 60’s and this style was followed by the restoration proyect.
It is our workhorse for film contracts (“Evita”, “7 years in the Tibet”, etc) and is running experimentally on used diesel lube-oil. |
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| 0-6-0 WT Nº 2; Orenstein & Koppel (Germany) 12956 of 1937. | |
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Worked
all its life at cement factory (Minetti S.A) in the province
of Cordoba.
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| Other pieces of rolling stock to be seen at the club | |
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| Steam locomotives | |
| 3815: 4-6-0 ex BAGS Rly. Beyer Peacock (U.K) 1906 (Works # 4787) | |
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It
was rescued from the Naval base at Bahia Blanca where it carried
the wrong Nº 3826.
Will be cosmetically restored to original BAGS colours and lettering. |
| 3908: 4-6-0 built by Talleres Liniers and Vulcan Foundy in 1938. | |
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Being restored aesthetically as it looked during the 40’s. |
| 3925: 4-6-2 heavy passenger 3 cylinder locomotive built for the BAGS in 1927 by Vulcan Foundry. | |
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Being restored to working condition with the aid from the British Embassy and private enterprise. |
| 3557:
Heavy (101 Tons) 3 cylinder local or suburban tank locomotive built in 1925 for the BAGS by Vulcan Foundry (U.K). |
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Only
surviving member of a class of 62 locos.
Temporarily being treated with anti-rush compounds for future restoration to full working order. |
| 1583: Light axle load (16 Ton) 4-8-0 express fruit train locomotive built in 1948 by The Vulcan Foundry. | |
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Class originally consisted of 30 engines and were used for the 1000 tons express fruit trains (apples & pears) from the High Valley in Rio Negro (800 miles from Buenos Aires). Sister engine 1567 is preserved at Mecha (80 miles from Buenos Aires) and is used by Ferroclub Chivilcoy. |
| 3004: Caprotti geared 4-6-2 express passenger engine. | |
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These were the heaviest loco’s in its class (201 tons with tender) to run in Argentina. Built in 1949 by The Vulcan Foundry (U.K). The order originally comprised 50 loco’s, but after 30 were delivered the order was cancelled and 21 diesels built instead. They were never successful (are we talking about the T1?), or better said, they never established a love affair with the traction and running department. |
| Diesel Locomotives | |
| Alsthom 060 DB (France) diesel Nº 8018 of 1957 | |
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Aside
from 5037 the only other broad gauge diesel preserved is 8018, only remaining example left of the French Alsthom locomotives to run in Argentina. high speed diesel engine, they were also the most complicated diesels to run in the country. As you may well guess they were not that successful, the class comprising 25 locomotives imported in 1957, they were retired during the 70’s. never the less, probably the best looking Roca Rly diesels. |
| Other items | |
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| Three beautiful coaches from the mainstay of our passenger stock | |
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The Anglo-Swiss Dynamometer car, built in 1925 for the BAGS had a long and undisturbed career. Its excellent state of preservation is mainly due to it is being used occasionally and most of its life was spent under cover. |
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Coach RF 6505 was used by the RR for charting purposes, specifically to wealthy families. |
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Coach O 261 belonged to the State Lines (Bariloche section), an ex.sleeper converted to official car, and used by the club whenever a special event shows up. |
| 10 1/4" gauge railway | |
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1/4'' (26 cms) gauge railway with steam locomotive and electric tram. |
| Also present is the Drewry railcar, a most ingenious little railbus capable of accommodating 1st and 2nd class passengers, has 2 bathrooms, postal compartment, luggage space and 2 spacious control cabs!!; a crane (recently reboilered); inspection railcar with new gasoline engine; postal van; restaurant and sleeping cars and electric MU are also part of the exhibition | |
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