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Porta (centre, with dark cap and scarf) and engine crew in 1959. Livio Dante Porta (21 March 1922 – 10 June 2003) was an Argentine steam locomotive engineer. He is particularly remembered for his innovative modifications to existing locomotive systems in order to obtain better performance and energy efficiency, and reduced pollution.
Diesel locomotives of Argentina (1 C, 1 P) D. Diesel–electric locomotives of Argentina (11 P)
La Trochita (official name: Viejo Expreso Patagónico), in English known as the Old Patagonian Express, is a 750 mm (2 ft 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) narrow gauge railway in Patagonia, Argentina using steam locomotives.
The first steam locomotive in South Korea (Korea at the time) was the Moga (Mogul) 2-6-0, which first ran on 9 September 1899 on the Gyeong-In Line. Other South Korean steam locomotive classes include the Sata, Pureo, Ame, Sig, Mika (USRA Heavy Mikado), Pasi (USRA Light Pacific), Hyeogi (Narrow gauge), Class 901, Mateo, Sori and Tou. Used until ...
Ffestiniog Railway – narrow-gauge steam locomotives and carriages [72] Hitachi Rail – diesel and electric locomotives, carriages [73] Hunslet Engine Company – diesel locomotives, narrow-gauge steam locomotives; part of Wabtec [74] Rhino Industries – narrow-gauge diesel/steam locomotives, new build, maintenance [75]
In effect, locomotives, bricks, bridges, sanitation tools for the stations, etc. were imported from Great Britain. So were large quantities of a non-manufactured product: the coal for the engines. Three months after Juárez Celman became president of Argentina (1886–1890), the main line of the Ferrocarril Andino was sold to a British company ...
1 double expansion steam engine, 2 screws Built for the Peruvian Corporation. Transferred to ENAFER in 1972. Stranded during floods in 1984. Sold to a scrap dealer in the 1990s. Resold to Juan Barriga. Rebuilt as a restaurant at Puno in 2001. Inca: 1905 Earle's Shipbuilding. No. 489 1905 1809 220 2 triple expansion steam engines, 2 screws
This network at one time had over 770 km of railway in operation, but only about 13 km remain in operation as a steam powered tourist railway. Other small narrow-gauge lines include the Rio de Janeiro streetcar (Bonde de Santa Teresa), with approximately 13 km of 1,100 mm ( 3 ft 7 + 5 ⁄ 16 in ) gauge, and a very short industrial railway near ...