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JNR 2-6-4T No. C11-190Posted by: Yuki Taki on Jan 14, 2021 @ 20:01:10
I see that this locomotive needs updating. Please change location to Kanaya, Shizuoka at the Oigawa Railway. Status should be Operational. She recently returned after a lengthy overhaul.
Osrodek Transportu Lesnego 0-6-0T No. T-244Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 14, 2021 @ 12:01:05
This Las type locomotive was delivered to OKL (State Forestry) Plociczno-Tartak in Podlaskie, situated in the extreme north-east of Poland, and worked here as No. T 244 (the identity it retains) until 1994 when it was taken to Elk. In 1996 it was plinthed outside Elk Wask Station.
SZD 0-10-0 No. Eu733-??Posted by: ILFORD on Jan 13, 2021 @ 18:01:26
Gauge is 1524mm not 1674.
Dominion Construction Co. 0-4-0T No. 2029Posted by: Jasn on Jan 13, 2021 @ 11:01:43
Is this engine still there as of 2021?
NCB South Kirkby Colliery 0-4-0ST No. 'York No1'Posted by: Russell Newman on Jan 13, 2021 @ 05:01:29
The former South Kirkby Colliery Yorkshire Engine Co. built 0-4-0ST Works No. 2474 "York No.1" has left the Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway and has gone to a private site in Yorkshire for restoration.
JNR 2-6-4T No. C11-325Posted by: Yuki Taki on Jan 13, 2021 @ 05:01:05
This locomotive was sold to Tobu Railway in Saitama last year. It turned its first wheel as a Tobu locomotive in December 2020.
Victorian Railways 4-6-4 No. R766Posted by: on Jan 12, 2021 @ 20:01:25
R766 is currently being repainted before more trials to begin, so far looks to be either VR Black and Red(like fellow R class members) or Steam Ages Brunswick green and red
KWK Powstanców 0-4-0T No. UnknownPosted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 12, 2021 @ 15:01:45
This loco was delivered direct to Held & Franke, Berlin. Nothing further is known until after WWII when it appeared at KWK Bytom in 1945, then KWK Powstanców, also in Bytom following local mergers. It was withdrawn in 1983 and handed over to the local dairy as a Stationary Boiler. After renovation in 2002 it was handed over to Trans-Mot, Bydgoszcz and in 2016 was plinthed outside the Railway Technical School, Unii Lubelskiej 4C, 85-059 Bydgoszcz, Kuravia-Pomeravia, Poland
Zaklad Budowy Magaszyn Osiny 0-6-0T No. 1892Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 12, 2021 @ 15:01:13
This locomotive, also known as Las 47, was delivered to KRZ Osiny, Poraj in Silesia, where it apparently worked until around 1990 and, in 1992 was plinthed outside Bielsko Biala Station, but was moved for display in 2001 to the Skansen Taboru Kolejowego, 34-720 Chabówka, Lesser Poland
Zwirownia, Elk 0-6-0T No. UnknownPosted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 12, 2021 @ 15:01:14
I believe that this Las type locomotive is actually formerly Zwirownia (Gravel Pit) Elk then Cukrownia Zduny (line Blaszki - Cielce). Its operating number at both locations is still a mystery though it could have been known by its Sosnowieckie boiler number of 15801. It is, however, Fabryka, Chrzanów 0-6-0T No. 3515 of 1958 - though by sequence it was more likely to have been in 1955g. It was working at the now closed Zdundy sugar beet plant until 1983. In 1984 it was taken to Ostrow Wlkp. and after renovation, was plinthed in front of the Railway Technical School but moved, in 2009, to the city park in ul. aleja Powstanców Wielkopolskich, 63-400 Ostrow Wlkp., Greater Poland
Cukrownia Ostrowite 0-8-0 No. (Kp4-3792)Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 12, 2021 @ 15:01:02
Kp4-3792 is better known by its boiler number of 15346 and worked at this factory, east of Bydgoszcz from delivery through to being plinthed here in 1998. Since 2010, when removed for restoration, it has sat in a factory at 87-522 Ostrowite, Rypin County, Kuyavia-Pomerania
Cukrownia Kruszwica 0-8-0 No. 2 (Kp4-3772)Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 12, 2021 @ 15:01:15
It was also known by its Sosnowieckie boiler number of 15333 whilst working at Kruszwica. The locomotive worked on this line until at least 1990 and, in 1993 was sent to ZNTK Olesnica as part of a (financial) settlement and later transported to the Mechanic-Repair Facility at Przezchleb, inTarnowskie Góry. In 2007 it went to the PTKiGK workshops in Dzierzno and, at the end of 2011, went to Gemina Cisna, the principal village in Lesko County, Subcarthania and home of the Bieszczadzka Kolejka Lesna (The Bieszczady Forest Railway) at Majdan in Subcarpathia. A few months later it was again fired but withdrawn from service in 2018. Since 2020 it has been awaiting repairs at the Skansen Taboru Kolejowego, 34-720 Chabówka, Lesser Poland.
Cukrownia Kruszwica 0-8-0 No. 1 (Kp4-3761)Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 12, 2021 @ 15:01:34
The locomotive was delivered to the named sugar plant, outside Bydgoszcz and still operative in Kuyavia-Pomerania, It worked for nearly thirty years until being sent for preservation, in 1987, at Muzeum Kolei Waskotorowej, ul. Towarowa 7, 96-500 Sochaczew, Masovia
PPRK 0-6-0T No. 5Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 12, 2021 @ 15:01:14
This Las type was delivered to Public Transport Works Enterprise, Section Chorzów as No. B111-141; then Borowiczki Sugar Plant as No. 2; followed by the Zduny Sugar Plant as their No. 1 (line Blaszki - Cielce) before being retired in 1983. Three years later, in 1986, it went to ZNTK Ostrów Wlkp. for renovation and in 1988 was placed on the premises of Kindergarten 17, ul. 3 Maja 17, 63-400 Ostrow Wlkp., Greater Poland
Toyo Kassei Hakudo Co. 0-4-0T No. 2Posted by: Dillon Trinh on Jan 12, 2021 @ 14:01:27
This locomotive is now on display at itoigawa Geopal, it last ran in 1982.
Reading RR 4-8-4 No. 2102Posted by: Russell Newman on Jan 12, 2021 @ 13:01:36
The former Reading Railroad Class T1 4-8-4 No. 2102 was steamed for the very first time in 30 years since 1991 for its official steam test as its restoration to operational condition is now in its final stages.
Grand Trunk Western RR 0-8-0 No. 8305Posted by: on Jan 12, 2021 @ 06:01:11
fuel I believe is still coal. It still has the butterfly doors on the back head
JNR 4-6-4 No. C61-2Posted by: Yuki Taki on Jan 12, 2021 @ 05:01:03
Status may need to be changed to static display until further notice. Following a minor derailment in 2018, this locomotive has not operated in two years. Its air compressor and feedwater pump are currently off the locomotive being used on C62-2.
Nittetsu Kogyo Hanets 4-4-2T No. 1080Posted by: Yuki Taki on Jan 12, 2021 @ 05:01:08
Status should be Static Display. The restoration was cosmetic only. Locomotive last operated in the late 1970s.
Trimpell Ltd 0-6-0F No. 6'Ben'Posted by: Ian Jamieson on Jan 11, 2021 @ 16:01:31
This is a 0-6-0 ordered in September 1949 by Shell Refining and Marketing Co. Ltd. It was delivered in May 1952 to Trimpell Ltd. (a subsidiary company) of Heysham, Lancashire and numbered 5. This locomotive is notable in being designed for the unusually high reservoir pressure of 300 psi (21 bar). It was sold in November 1970 to Lakeside Railway Estates Co. Ltd. and put in their museum in the former British Railways motive power depot at Carnforth. It was later moved to Shropshire. A full restoration was commenced in 2006–7 and completed in January 2011. Restoration was completed in May 2010 by Wayne Bownes, who completed the restoration single handed.
Huta Pokoj, Ruda Slaska 0-6-0T No. A8 (Tkh-3153)Posted by: ILFORD on Jan 11, 2021 @ 16:01:22
This locomotive was built by Chrzanow 3153 of 1954 but carries plates of 2943 of 1952. Loco was sold to a Tallinn, Estonia scrap dealer at the end of 2018. Later the loco was put onto a 5 foot gauge wagon and taken for a trip around Estonia on display in a military train. Last noted at Veriora, Polyamaa on 1st April 2019 in transit. Final destination is not known.
Cementownia Saturn 0-4-0T No. 8 B 14998Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 11, 2021 @ 14:01:21
Cementownia Saturn, Wojkowicach 0-4-0T No. 8 B 14998 (Numbered after its boiler number) of Fabryka, Chrzanów No. 2863 of 1956 in 1000mm gauge. This locomotive was delivered to the Zaklady Przemyslu, Wojkowice (Górazdze Limestone Industry Plant) where it worked it mostly worked. It was in Tarnowskie Góry during 2005 and it moved to Chorzówn in 2016, then to Swarzedz the following year. In late 2018 it was plinthed in Park Rataje, 61-253 Poznan, Greater Poland
Cementownia Saturn 0-4-0T No. 1 B 13260Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 11, 2021 @ 14:01:58
1 B 13260 (Numbered after its boiler number) of Fabryka, Chrzanów No. 2638 of 1953 is 1000mm gauge. This locomotive appears to have worked all its life at this cement factory until the mid 1990s, whence it went to an abandoned area of a bakery co-operative near Ryn. In 2008 it was moved and is now on display at the Mrongoville Family Town, ul. Mlynowa 50, 11-700 Mragowo, Masuria
PKP 0-8-0 No. Px48-1912 (Displayed as Px48-1724)Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 11, 2021 @ 14:01:20
This locomotive was delivered to, and based at Warszawa Stalowa, though it visited lines at Rogów & Biala Podlaska (1956) and Mlawa both in 1963 and 1975. Gniezno followed in 1976 and 1993 and, in 2000 it was placed on display at Pleszew Miasto Station (bearing the false plates of No. Px48-1724). The actual (real) No. Px48-1724 is still be found at Swietokrzyska. In the Spring of 2020 No. PX48-1912 (as No. 1724) went for renovation in Sroda Wielkopolska then, months later, returned for display in the same guise by the SKPL, 63-300 Pleszew Wask., Greater Poland
PKP (Schmiegeler) 0-6-0T No. Ty6-3284Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 11, 2021 @ 14:01:12
This locomotive was delivered from Krauss-Maffei AG, München-Allach, to Kreisbahn Schmiegel as their No. 4 and, in 1949, joined the PKP fleet in Smigiel as No. Ty5-3301 and worked at several Pomeranian lines; was renumbered to its current identity from 1961, and was withdrawn from service during 1973, being deleted from then PKP inventory at the end of 1974. It is now on display at the Skansenu Kolejki Waskotorowej przy, ul. Blonie 2, 72-300 Gryfice, West Pomerantia
PKP 0-10-0T No. Tw53-2566Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 11, 2021 @ 14:01:36
This locomotive joined the PKP early in 1955 at Bytom Karb and worked through here until being withdrawn in 1988. It was moved, in 1991, to Rudy Raciborskie and, in 2004, taken to the Stanica Station and, in 2008 was exported to the Czech Republic only to be returned to Rudy Raciborskie just over a year later. In 2020 it was returned from here to Bytom Karb depot where it is now on display.
PKP 0-10-0T No. Tw53-2561Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 11, 2021 @ 14:01:44
This locomotive joined the PKP towards the end of 1954 at Bytom Karb and worked here through to 1986, being officially withdrawn in 1988. During 1989 it was place on display outside Bielsko Biala Station and not moved again until 2001 when it was taken for display, where it now resides, at the Rolling Stock Open-Air Museum in Chabówka.
PKP 0-8-0 No. Px48-3917Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 11, 2021 @ 13:01:57
Px48-3917 is 1000mm gauge originally built by Fabryka, Chrzanów No. 3069 of 1954 in 750mm gauge as No. Px48-1782 and delivered to Krosniewice. It went to the metre gauge operation at Gryfice in 1969 and on to ZNTK Nowy Sacz for conversion, whence it re-appeared later in the year as 1000mm gauge No. Px48-3903. In 1978 it was at both Dobra Nowogardzkie and Insko and was withdrawn in 1985. Seven years later, in 1992, the chassis was purchased by Interlok. Pila and connected to the boiler from withdrawn locomotive No. Px49-1791 (Chrzanów No 2031 of 1949). It was at Piaseczna for tests in 1997 and was withdrawn from service, following boiler failure in 2010, and removed from here by the owner two years later. The locomotive is now on display at the premises of Budokrusz SA, ul. Osowiecka 47, 05-825 Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Masovia
PKP 0-8-0 No. Px48-3915Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 11, 2021 @ 13:01:24
This locomotive was delivered to Warszawa Stalowa as 750mm gauge No. Px48-1766 and, a decade later, moved to Sompolno, Gniezno and Krosniewice. In 1975 it went to ZNTK Nowy Sacz where it was converted to 1000mm gauge in its current identity and went afterwards to Gryfice. It is now on display at the Skansenu Kolejki Waskotorowej przy, ul. Blonie 2, 72-300 Gryfice, West Pomerantia
PKP 0-8-0 No. Px48-3913Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 11, 2021 @ 13:01:41
This locomotive was built as Fabryka, Chrzanów No. 2248 of 1951 in gauge 750mm and as PKP No. PX48-1753, being delivered to Opalenica. It worked between here, Zbiersk and Krosniewice before being taken to ZNTK Nowy Sacz where it was converted to 1000mm gauge and renumbered to Px48-3913. It then worked at Koszalin before, in 1990, being purchased by the Brohltalbahn, Germany where it worked for several years as their No. VI. In 2008 it was taken to a workshop in Benndorf, Germany from where it is believed its original boiler went to sister No. Px48-3906 and, by 2012, back to Poland, on this occasion to Gryfice where it remains awaiting repairs at the metre gauge line in the Lokomotywownia Wask., 72-300 Gryfice, West Pomerania
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