Saturday, 20 February 2016



Steam Survivors in Panama

Fraser and Chalmers
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MADE IN ERITH






in the Darien region about 20km from the border with Columbia. A British Company built a 700/750mm line from a port in Columbia to the site of pre-Columbian and Spanish gold mines around 1900. The site was abandoned in 1907 !!! and two locos were left behind, plus various steam pumping engines-one manufactured in Erith, Kent by Fraser and Chalmers. One locomotive is in bad shape, the other looks almost intact apart from loss of fittings. Much better than the Welsh slate quarry locos (like Wendy) looked in the 60s!

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