Southern African Trains - South
African Garratts - Argentinian Garratt ' Ing DL D Porta'
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ARGENTINIAN
GARRATT - N2 - 'ING L D PORTA'
Roderick Smith - Rail News Victoria Editor
| A great deal of interest
has been shown in the Garratt exported from
South Africa to Ushuaia (southern Argentina) for
use on FC Austral Feuguino. This is a tourist
line into a national park on the city fringe. It
was built on the alignment of a former timber
line, worked by prisoners. It gets very
busy,carrying groups from cruise ships. Below is a photo of the first Garratt, coded N2, and named 'Ing L D Porta'. This was built by Tranex in 1994. This seems to be an Argentinian company. The loco was styled after Tasmanian K1/K2. It was rebuilt at Ushuaia (the workshops at El Fin del Mundo station) in 2001. The water tanks were enlarged to a new profile.
El Fin
del Mundo (Ushuaia, Patagonia, Argentina):
Garratt N2 'Ing L D Porta' |
