FCGU 4-6-0 No. 655
Santa Ana de los Guácaras, Argentina 		Location: Plaza Manuel Belgrano
Status: Display
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Posted: Jul 27, 2018 @ 14:07:35 by Robin R Beck
One of the ROD 4-6-0T locomotives, built after the war ended. Supplied to Buenos Aires & Great Southern railway where it operated as a 4-6-0 with a home made tender. In 1948 Argentinas railways were nationalized and split into 6 divisions. BAGS became part of Ferrocarril General Urquirza. 1336 became FCGU number 655. It seems to have ended its working life on the FCGU Correntino Economic Railway system, a 175 km section absorbed in 1948 by the national railway. Running from Correntes to Mburucuya the railway closed in 1969.

1336 is now preserved at Plaza Manuel Belgrano in Santa Ana, Corrientes province. A display at the park labelled Estacion Santa Ana has FCGU 655 on one end of a row of wagons & carriages. The other end is Henschel 20232. 1336 had ended its life as a wood burner so the home made tender has railings on top of water tank for wood.