FCCA Class PS10

The FCCA Class PS10 is a class of 4-6-2 "Pacific" type steam locomotives that were built by the North British Locomotive Company for the Ferrocarril Central Argentino of Argentina.
===Technical Specifications===
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==History==
The origin of this model of locomotive goes back to the missing Talleres Rosario of the former Argentine Central Railway. There, engineers from the workshop designed these locomotives and other models, which were later commissioned for construction by manufacturers in the United Kingdom. It was entrusted to the prestigious firm North British Locomotive Company Limited, manufacturing it entirely and delivering it to the Central Argentino in 1914.
The locomotives were with Pacific 4-6-2 wheels and wheel diameters of one meter and eighty centimeters, very elegant and high speed for passenger trains. The PS10 nomenclature comes from the initials PS meaning Passenger Superheater (in Spanish: Pasajero Supercalentador). This means that it is a superheated steam locomotive; once the steam is saturated, it is passed through the superheating tubes, reheating the steam, reaching the cylinders dry and with higher pressure.
In many of the specialized international publications of the time, reference is made to the PS10 series of the Central Argentino, and always with adjectives such as "splendid" or also "majestic".1​
Curiously, from this series there was a locomotive that entered the legend and was precisely the first of the numbering, No. 191, driven by the famous engineer Francisco Savio, who broke the South American speed record, on February 13, 1926, on the Buenos Aires-Rosario route (about 303 km) in just 3 hours and 21 minutes at an average of 90.4 km/h, something incredible for the time, and set the South American speed record for trains.2
These steam locomotives were commissioned to run the express services of the Argentine Central Railroad, but at the beginning of the 1930s, a new generation of larger and more powerful steam locomotives entered the Class PS11 of the Argentine Central, nicknamed the Caprotti, due to to its engine that had the Caprotti timing mechanism instead of using the Walchaerts timing mechanism. Later they continued to be used but in less prestigious services and were gradually replaced until the 191 last worked in 1968, later becoming a museum locomotive. PS10 Nº199 also has its history, the machinist Carlos Gallini worked on it.
==External links==
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Category:Argentina
Category:Steam locomotives
Category:Steam Locomotives from the American Continent
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Category:South America
Category:North British locomotives
Category:Built in 1914