FCGR1 (BAGS2) 4-8-0 No. Unknown
Tres Arroyos, Argentina 		Location: Abandoned Locomotive Depot
Status: Abandoned
Abbreviation Expansion English
1 FCGR Ferrocarril General Roca General Roca Railway
2 BAGS Ferrovia Grande Sul de Buenos Aires Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway
Posted: May 27, 2026 @ 18:05:23 by Steve Frost, European Editor
I believe that 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%.

Sadly the remains of this one lie abandoned in a derelict locomotive depot.