CHILEAN SENTINEL SURVIVORS?

摘要

The Nitrate Railways of Chile owned three steam-powered 1926-vintage Sentinel railbuses. I am 99% sure that the bodies of two of them survive, in use as offices in an industrial site, just to the south side of Highway 11, which leads to Bolivia, around 1/(1/2) km east of the junction with Highway 5, some 12 km north of Arica. I have been to the spot some four times during the past few years, hoping to find somebody to ask about them, but never coming across anybody. Neither is there any sign indicating to whom they belong. Enquiries made of ex-railwaymen in Arica have all drawn blanks. They seem to be used and well looked after.