Pedro Pablo Lacoste photo
The class was manufactured in Argentina by a group of companies called GAIA (Gruppo Aziende Italiane Argentine) between 1963 and 1968. Originally the locomotives were powered by a FIAT 288 ES II engine but several of them were remotorized between 1989 and 1991 with ALCO 12-251 B, the same one that have the RSD-16. This motor was manufactured under license by the Argentine company Materfer. TBA has several units in service, which are circulating on the branch Victoria - Chapel of the General Mitre line with suburban trains.
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This is the first Gaia unit in shining new outline of painting of TBA. The
unit received a general overhaul of all its mechanical elements.
Pedro Pablo Lacoste photo |
| The picture of 609 - still in the FA colors - dates of October 1997.
Pedro Pablo Lacoste photo |
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