File talk:Museo del Transporte de Caracas 004.jpg

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Puerto Rican locomotive

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According to The International Steam Pages: El Museo del Transporte, Caracas, Venezuela, 2013 ( https://www.internationalsteam.co.uk/trains/venezuela01.htm ) this is a Puerto Rican metre-gauge locomotive. Full info:

  • Builder: Baldwin
  • Number: 60181
  • Year: 1927
  • Wheel arrangement: 2-8-0
  • Gauge: 1000 mm
  • Comments: Central Juncos (Puerto Rico) 8 “LUISA”, 36 tons, new to Central Pasto Viejo 8 (30”-gauge), 1928 to Central Juncos 8 (regauged to 1000mm), then Eastern Sugar Assocs. 8, then Fajardo Eastern Sugar Assocs. 8, then C. Brewer de PR E462, 1968 to J. Wirshing, in use on FC Historico de PR in Fajardo from 1971, after closure in 1975 to Museo del Transporte
  • Reference: Builders plate on engine

212.202.63.45 20:34, 7 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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