Argentina Railways

[christo]

Photo Balkanmodels: January 2016 Buenos Aires. Locomotive B971 at Estacion Retiro/San Martin.

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[christo]

Photo Balkanmodels: January 2016 Buenos Aires. A darket exposure of locomotive B971 at Estacion Retiro/San Martin.

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[christo]

Photo Balkanmodels: January 2016 Buenos Aires. Door and bogie detail of locomotive B971 at Estacion Retiro/San Martin.

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[christo]

Photo Balkanmodels: January 2016 Buenos Aires. A darket exposure of the previous shot at Estacion Retiro/San Martin.

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[BalkanExpress]

This is the Spanish 319 (ex-1900 serie) made from the pieces ans spare parts of a major serie previously working in the network. Those locomotives are General Motors built in their origin.

Majorly used in good trains, some of them were adapted for regional traffic.

Picture from web comofuncionanlostrenes.blogspot.com.es by Yagolo

After a major revisión of necesities in network, RENFE had sold some of them to Argentinian railways (and some TALGO tilting stock) as seen in the picture

Picture from www.todotren.com.ar website

You can see in Christo's pictures new cosmetic improvement in the same loco, specially in cab shape

regards

BalkanExpress

[BalkanExpress]

Sorry guys,but I cheat you

I was so worried about the bogies in Christo's pictures; it seems to be more than a cosmetic work on Spanish locomotives.

A friend of mine has sent to me this link in the famous argentinian newspaper 'Clarin'

[url][/url]http://www.clarin.com/ciudades/incendio-locomotora-San-Martin-funciona_0_1643235681.html[url][/url]

It talks about the chinese locomotives shown in Christo's pictures and the related matters they suffer since they arrived Argentina...

I think they are less reliable than those Craiovas sent to UK

Regards

BalkanExpress

[christo]

Photo Balkanmodels: January 2016 Buenos Aires. Another look at the bogie of locomotive B971 at Estacion Retiro/San Martin.

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[christo]

Photo Balkanmodels: January 2016 Buenos Aires. A lighter exposure of the previous shot at Estacion Retiro/San Martin.

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[christo]

Photo Balkanmodels: January 2016 Buenos Aires. A view of the platform with locomotive B971 waiting at Estacion Retiro/San Martin.

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[christo]

Photo Balkanmodels: January 2016 Buenos Aires. An alternative view of the platform with locomotive B971 waiting at Estacion Retiro/San Martin.

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