Our 1300 Whitcombe is another American Genuine we have in Portugal. I have some photos of them, unfortunately, these photos are all from their last period... so, locomotives were preparing to die...
These locomotives, in their days, were the main locomotives for the most prestigious trains in Portugal, from the Sud-Express to the Lusitania Express (from France and Spain, respectively) and some of the fastest trains in Portuguese North and Eastern Lines. With the electrification of the North Line, they were sent to the Barreiro Station and were given the trains to the South. These were really fast locomotives, yet they had a serious traction problem, especially in the Algarve Hills... when they were pulling a "normal" train for Algarve with about 12 Budd Coaches, or something like that, they began failing and sometimes passengers were asked to leave the train and accompany it on foot... Great times...
