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Can anyone help me identify this locomotive type?

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Posted by DSchmitt on Sunday, February 17, 2019 3:21 PM

FCAB Roster 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stock_used_by_Ferrocarril_de_Antofagasta_a_Bolivia

  

 Here is a photo of sister loco #602  Interesting it is not identical to #603 posted by Shrike Arghast  Photo from http://railroad.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=165439


 

Barriger has a photo of American Railtoad Company of Puerto Rico # 601 which probably became FCAB #600 (not listed on above roster)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/barrigerlibrary/sets/72157644767586222/with/14215209616/

 

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Posted by mandealco on Saturday, February 16, 2019 1:05 PM

Sorry I can't help you with the Davenport, but that's a former Queensland Rail Clyde-GM unit in the background, maybe a G-16 or similar.

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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Saturday, February 16, 2019 6:52 AM

FCAB is a meter-gauge operation so the locomotive might be a small order of an export design that came in at 45 tons.

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Posted by Overmod on Saturday, February 16, 2019 12:13 AM

I think you'll get further if you look at Davenport 45-tonners (this looks as though it is effectively 'two DE45s on a common frame', so perhaps a much larger locomotive than a '45-tonner'.)  There are a number of double-engined Davenports from 70 to 110 ton size on the Web; I don't see any that have the hood style of the DE45 but evidently FCAB has one.

See if you can check the Davenport records to see if that number on the oval cab plate is in fact a builder's number of some kind.  And what era the plate style might match.

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Can anyone help me identify this locomotive type?
Posted by Shrike Arghast on Friday, February 15, 2019 11:41 PM

Hi all,

I model locomotives in Lego (my lastest work is a B&M 2-8-4), and I'd like to design a little engine I recently found while performing image searches.

Wikipedia lists the above as a Davenport 44-ton locomotive (from Bolivia). However, doing a Google images search for 'Davenport 44-ton diesel' produces engines that look nothing like that photo. I have a hard time believing (although it is certainly possible) that these were the only two engines of this type to exist, and I have a feeling I could find more photos with a more precise designation.

Any help is much appeciated.

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