Frankfurt am Main Sud Gravel Pit 0-4-0T No. 1
Solms-Oberbiel, Hessen, Germany 		Location: Feld-und Grubenbahnmuseum Fortuna
Status: Operational
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Posted: Dec 26, 2023 @ 05:12:14 by PHILIP MASON
This loco is still at Gruba Fortuna and is operational. I rode behind it 10/4/23. The works plate shows the build year as 1936.
Posted: Jan 22, 2023 @ 07:01:30 by Dale W Fickés
Phillip Holzmann was only the intermediary supplier, NOT the owner, to Frankfurt am Main Süd Gravel Pit, to whom the locomotive was delivered in 700mm gauge the identity being Rbi 205. In 1968 it was sold privately to Family Meyer, Obertshausen and, from 1986 was on permanent loan to the Field and Mine Railway Museum Fortuna, Solms-Oberbiel nr. Wetzlar as No. 1 and where it was also converted to 600mm gauge in 1990, and where it was until at least 2002.