Joe Weigman Wrote:
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> In 1953 the four locomotives and most of the
> OR&L’s rolling stock was sold to a railroad in
> Guatemala. I haven’t found any photos of the
> locomotives there but on smugmug I found a guy
> with a few photo albums of some Guatemalan
> railroads, one of the albums had photos of the
> OR&L Rolling stock being used. I have no knowledge
> about the locomotive’s service on this railroad
> except for knowing that they were purchased and
> shipped there. These albums also provide captions
> for each photo, one or them provide evidence that
> the railroad ran steam locomotives until 1985 when
> the entire operation shut down. I would very much
> like to know more about the four K-28s time here,
> knowing somewhat about Guatemalan railroading,
> these locomotives could still exist, rusting away
> deep in a forest with a bunch of other abandoned
> rail equipment, or they could have been scraped a
> long time ago. So far I haven’t found anything
> about their disposition, but so far my only
> resource has just been the internet.
>
> I’ll see later today if I can find a link to
> these smugmug albums...
Not Guatemala, but right next door in El Salvador. They were Alco 2-8-0s
and were all out of service by the time that I visited in 1975.