Tiffany Granath Tatoo

The Mikado RENFE Concrete Music

The latest series of large steam locomotives was the configuration RENFE 141. After the war of 1936-39 it became necessary to plan reconstruction of the English Railways, very affected by the war, with many companies and most varied fleet of locomotives, due in part to differences in paths and partly to the special hobbies operations managers. The new locomotive requirements for the Department established the material and pull the newborn RENFE, commissioned the project to the best engineering time, the Design Department's Land and Marine Engineer. Finally, because of inability to fulfill the terms defined in the specification, tendering the North British Locomotive Co. got Ltd, Glasgow, Scotland, who delivered 25 locomotives and materials for 100 more, who built the English companies. Subsequently, domestic materials another 117 were built from 1953 to 1960. Originally designed to burn coal, were transformed almost all of them to operate with fuel.

Regardless of particularly good for any of its tasks, made all the network services, from lead as the Lusitania Express Express trains potaseros wheel drive or bus in three or four cars on secondary roads.

The last time I traveled in one of them was in December 1973 between Calatayud and Soria. On that occasion came from the tank to take the bus Soria to Burgos and Cidad-fault Dosantos by Alco 2100 service holder, which in turn in January 1974 made the route with a spur to mitigate the effects of the tremendous snowfall of that beginning of the year. In the above photo we see a roundabout in Soria and another sister in the background.

Among its features can cite the 15 Kg / cm 2 boiler pressure, 1560 mm diameter of the driven wheels, 14417 kg of drawbar pull 2000 hp (with good coal) and 64.5 tons of service weight. Were capable of moving trains of 1000 tonnes at 90 km / h in horizontal.

The last steam locomotive was a Mikado our country, the 141F2348 that put out the current head of state when he was Prince of Spain, on June 23, 1975 in Vicálvaro station (now the museum is located in Vilanova i La Geltrú without rods, and cannibalized, which would be inconceivable in any civilized country.) Today there are a few units in running (three or four) of which one only is Scottish, the 141F2111 and can be admired in museums and some pedestals.