Re: SVRy locos....

J.B.Bane Wrote:
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> Yes, many of us had hopes that one day the 50
> would turn up. Dale Brown has posted on this
> forum that he has done some searching in Peru for
> the SVRy Baldwin Mikes and #50 and pretty much
> concluded they have been scrapped.

J.B.

As I have reported from what little information that I could find out is that #50 was scrapped about 79 or 80 at Poroy loco dump. Victims of a cleanup campaign of the former ENEFER (Peru National Railway Company). The other two Baldwins probabily fell victim of the closure of the F.C. del Santa after the great quake in 1970 that wrecked the railroad and the killed tens of thousands in the Chimbote area. The railroad was dismantled and most of the equipment either transfered or scrapped after 1970. The Baldwins didn't seem to find a new home. The two Alco diesels have ended up on the ex-FCS Cusco and Santa Ana line to Macchu Picchu.

One other survivor of the FC del Santa is a Railcar body at Huancayo in the FCHH shops yard. However the FCHH is in the process of being standard gauged.

Dale Brown