Pic was another Kitson-Meyer in Chile. These were mostly used in South America and India, where power was needed and curves were too tight for a Garratt.
They were an improvement on the Meyer locomotive design. Kitson moved the rear engine backwards and that allows for a larger firebox and more fuel and water to be carried.
>>1878756If they had enough traffic to warrant bigger engines, they would stump up the money to upgrade the permanent way.
>>1882171Nope, by Kitson & Co of Leeds, Yorkshire.
The replacement electric locomotives were Swiss.
Funny thing is those Kitson-Mayers like
>>1881989had only one cog wheel on the front engine and none on the back. One of the cylinders driving that cog has the guy in white next to the smokebox reaching to it.
That and their boilers didn't have a large enough evaporative capacity to run both the rack engine and the adhesive engines continuously.
