FCGR (BAGS) 4-8-0 No. 1583
Remedios de Escalada, Argentina 		Location: Ferroclub Argentino CDP
Status: Display
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Posted: May 27, 2026 @ 18:05:21 by Steve Frost, European Editor
This loco is a Class 15B built in 1948 by Vulcan Foundry, Newton le Willows for the Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway. The complete surviving examples show the raised running plate over the cylinders and also the shape of the cut away at the bottom of the cab side sheet and the patch on the side sheet where a plaque of some sort was displayed are the same. There were 30 locos in the class and they were rebuilt in the late 1950s on the principles of the great French locomotive engineer, Andre Chapelon. I think that the equally great Argentinian locomotive engineer L D Porta would have carried this out. The result was and increase in power of up to 40% with a reduction in fuel consumption on average of 30%.