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Dale Brown

January 30, 2003 11:13PM

Bob,
I don't have many of my books here with me in Peru. What was #50? I know of only a handful of narrow gauge engines saved. In Chimbote is the hulk of #20 a Baldwin 2-8-0. The area of the shops and station in Chimbote have been over run with businesses and markets. Not much escapes the scrappers here in Peru. In Columbia, Bolivia, Chile, Brasil and Argentina many locomotives both preserved and dumped exist. It also very hard to find someone old enough to have remembered the railroads in some areas of Peru. Many locals do not know the history of the area.
I still hold out hope that somewhere is a locomotive that is forgotten and abandoned. Unfortunately there is a scrap metal smelter in Chimbote. We had been planning a trip to Huancayo in the next few weeks before returning to the US. However it is the rainy season in Andes and many of the main roads are impassable into the Mountains. Puno is now having some major flooding problems near Lake Titicaca. We may have to wait till the Winter when we return in July. We will be in Ecuador for a tour on the G&Q.
Dale Brown
Lima, Peru

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2-8-2 102 in Lima, Peru PIC	Dale Brown	January 28, 2003 02:27PM
Re: 2-8-2 102 in Lima, Peru	dan	January 28, 2003 04:29PM
Re: 2-8-2 102 in Lima, Peru	dan	January 28, 2003 04:34PM
Re: 2-8-2 102 in Lima, Peru	slimjim	January 28, 2003 05:31PM
Re: 2-8-2 102 in Lima, Peru	Glenn Christensen	January 28, 2003 06:01PM
Re: 2-8-2 102 in Lima, Peru	Dale Brown	January 28, 2003 09:44PM
Re: 2-8-2 102 in Lima, Peru	Jim Armstrong	January 29, 2003 10:11AM
Re: 2-8-2 102 in Lima, Peru	Gavin Hamilton	January 29, 2003 12:01PM
Re: 2-8-2 102 in Lima, Peru	Dale Brown	January 29, 2003 07:52PM
Any sign of Sumpter Valley 50?	Bob Yarger	January 30, 2003 07:28AM
Re: Any sign of Sumpter Valley 50?	Dale Brown	January 30, 2003 11:13PM
Re: Any sign of Sumpter Valley 50?	Bob Yarger	January 31, 2003 04:41AM
Re: Any sign of Sumpter Valley 50?	Dale Brown	January 31, 2003 09:39AM
WP&YR in PERU PIC	Boerries Burkhardt	February 01, 2003 06:15AM
Re: SV #17 anyone?	Gavin Hamilton	February 01, 2003 08:59AM
FC del Santa abandonment in 70's	Dale Brown	February 01, 2003 10:12AM
Re: FC del Santa abandonment in 70's	Glenn Christensen	February 01, 2003 01:16PM
Re: Any sign of Sumpter Valley 50?	Glenn Christensen	January 31, 2003 02:19PM
Re: Any sign of Sumpter Valley 50?	Dale Brown	January 31, 2003 02:47PM
Re: Any sign of Sumpter Valley 50?	Glenn Christensen	February 01, 2003 12:39PM
Re: 2-8-2 102 in Lima, Peru	Chris Holombo	January 30, 2003 10:13AM
Re: 2-8-2 102 in Lima, Peru	Gavin Hamilton	January 30, 2003 11:53AM
Re: 2-8-2 102 in Lima, Peru	Glenn Christensen	January 31, 2003 02:23PM
Photos of 102 in 1982	Michael Allen	February 01, 2003 01:54PM
That looks like Dale's 2-8-2!	Glenn Christensen	February 01, 2003 02:00PM
Re: Photos of 102 in 1982	Dale Brown	February 01, 2003 05:24PM

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