'Migrant' european locomotives

[Mario_v]

Hello all ;

Here are some vignettes of european locomotives that have migrated from the 'old continent' to Argentina

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Let us see if anyone guesses the heritage of the cars ...

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And in the american continent, the US are not alone in the 'Talgo issue' (altough riding it in this track must not be a good experience)

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[Anonymous]

You could call this one a "migrant worker" as well:

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[samfp1943]

Mario_v wrote the following post on Friday, July 13, 2012

Hello all ;

"...Here are some vignettes of european locomotives that have migrated from the 'old continent' to Argentina..."

  The cars you asked the 'heritage of"?  [Second Video on list]

    They seem to resembles the center door cars as used on the New York, Connecticut lines of Metro North ( heavy Commuter Rail ) ?

[ In a coupe of other videos]  Some of the others would appeared to be of the "Budd" Stainless steel construction era of 40 to 50 years back. Passenger Coaches that were thought to be 'worn out and discarded' (?)

  Funny how long those cars survive and soldier on, and American-built engines morph as well, into BB+BB configurations in several different gauges used in heavy service still on various rail operations in South America..  

  OK, Those are my guesses.

 

[Mario_v]

I asked about the ones in the 3rd video (with the orange loco). Actually these cars were part of the big lot bought by Chessie (C&O) in 1948 to be used in their possible future streamliners. As that didn't materialise, most  if not all were sold to several RRs, including these 4 that ended up in Argentina where they have been in use in the 'Marplataense' passenger train.

As for the cars on the 2nd video, these are locally build commuter cars and the engines are former RENFE (Spanish national railways) EMD G12 (export models) derivatives

[Mario_v]

Although these units (ALP46/46As) might look migrants, in reality I would called it custom built, since there are some specific details that are quite diferent from european TrAXXes