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PKP (DRB) 2-10-0 No. Ty23-104 (58.2563)

Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 8, 2021 @ 05:01:50
This locomotive was originally PKP No. Ty23-382 but was renumbered by the DRB in 1941 as No. 58 2563. It was reinstated to the PKP in 1945 at Gniezno, presumably in its current identity. After that it spent most of its years at Tarnowskie Góry but was withdrawn from nearby Lazy in 1978 before being moved to Chabówka in 1994.

PKP 2-10-0 No. Ty45-386

Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 8, 2021 @ 05:01:25
This locomotive was delivered to Kraków Plaszów; was further south by 1962 at Czechowice Dziedzice but spent many years at Szopienice before being withdrawn and moved to Chabówka in 1992.

PKP (DRB) 2-10-0 No. Ty2-50 (52.200)

Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 8, 2021 @ 05:01:21
Delivered to the DRB as No. 52 200, this locomotive joined the PKP in 1945 and was allocated to depots in Kraków Prokocim, Gdansk Zaspa, Skarzysko Kamienna and Chelm before being withdrawn from the latter in 1991, from where it moved to Chabówka in 1993.

PKP (DRB) 0-8-0 No. Tp4-259 (55.3347)

Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 8, 2021 @ 05:01:53
Originally supplied as PKP No. 4009, it was renumbered Tp4-418 of Warsaw in 1925. It became DRB Ostbahn in 1939, then re-used No.55 3347 from 1941 and was at Przeworsk in 1943. It re-joined the PKP in Wegliniec during 1945 and was given its current identity a year later. It worked until 1972 when it was at Jaworzyna Slaska and it was not until 1995 that it was moved to Chabówka for preservation.

PKP (DRB) 0-10-0 No. Tw12-12 (57.344)

Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 8, 2021 @ 05:01:00
This locomotive was originally planned as BBÖ No. 80.3968 but actually originally became PKP No. 2041 then, from 1925 No. Tw12-49 before being re-numbered by the DRB, in 1941, to DRB 57 344 It presumably assumed its current number with the PKP in 1945. It has been based at the Chabówka Rolling-Stock Heritage Park "Skansen" Chabówka, Lesser Poland since 1993.

PKP (DRB) 2-10-0 No. Ty2-1279 (52.3597)

Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 6, 2021 @ 13:01:15
According to information I have, this locomotive is (contrary to the note posted by ILFORD, sorry) actually Krauss-Maffei AG, München-Allach No. 16704 (which is the same number as its original boiler) of 1943. After service with the DRB as No. 52 3597 (NOT No. 52.6051 which. I would agree, may have been manufactured by WLF in Wien, though I suspect BMAG) it ran with Soviet Railways as MPS TE 3567 until returned to the PKP in its current guise during the final months of 1962, being allocated to Leszno. It was withdrawn from Elk at the end of 2000. It was taken to Warsaw in 2014 and, two years later, to Gliwice where it is now domiciled in Blogoslawionego, Czeslawa 13, 44-100 Gliwice, Silesia

PKP (KPEV) 0-10-0 No. Tw1-90 (5495)

Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 6, 2021 @ 13:01:35
This locomotive was delivered to KPEV as Kattowitz 5495 and, from 1922, became Oppeln 5495. Only three years later, in 1925, it became DRB No. 57 1658 and assumed its current identity when it joined the PKP in 1945. It was at Torun in 1957 and Ilawa in 1960. It was withdrawn from service at Gdansk Zaspa in 1976 and is now displayed at Skansenu Parowozownia ul. Towarowa 7, 83-400 Koscierzyna, Pomerania

OSE (USATC) 2-8-0 No. 701 (3278) 'Franklin D Roosevelt'

Posted by: Russell Newman on Jan 6, 2021 @ 06:01:51
Former United States Army Transportation Corps S160 2-8-0 No. 3278 has now left Tyseley Locomotive Works and has moved to its new home at the Churnet Valley Railway at Cheddleton in Staffordshire. As it arrived there in early December 2020 where its overhaul will now continue and when completed No. 3278 will be part of the Churnet Valley’s running fleet under the care of Batt Holden Ltd.

USATC (MAV) 2-8-0 No. 6046 (411.144)

Posted by: Russell Newman on Jan 6, 2021 @ 05:01:11
No. 6046 has undergone some boiler work over later half of 2020 which has seen a new main steam pipe fitted and some repair work too and was test run over Christmas and should be good for the 2021 season.

USATC (CR) 2-8-0 No. 5197 (KD6.463)

Posted by: Russell Newman on Jan 6, 2021 @ 05:01:43
During the later half of 2020 ex United States Army Transportation Corps S160 2-8-0 No. 5197 has undergone a number of repairs which has seen new South African style injectors fitted replacing the Chinese style lifting injectors and some work done on the steam reverser and the fitting of a new replacement tender tank in readiness for the 2021 season.

Huta Lenina 0-6-0T No. TKh 05353

Posted by: ILFORD on Jan 4, 2021 @ 17:01:22
Boiler certificate has expired, awaiting overhaul.

PMPPW Katowice 0-8-0T No. TKp-101

Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 4, 2021 @ 09:01:19
This locomotive was delivered direct to Katowice and worked here until retiring and where it is now located as a wreck, at Slaskie Zaplecze Mechaniczno-Remontowe, 42-675 Przezchlebie, Silesia, Poland.

Huta Lenina 0-6-0T No. TKh 05353

Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 4, 2021 @ 09:01:28
Huta Lenina 0-6-0T No. TKh 05353, delivered in from Fabryka, Chrzanów as their No. 3121 of 1953 to the steelworks (now Arcelor-Mittal) in eastern Krakow. It moved to Hucie Florian (also now Arcelor-Mittal) in 1970 and was taken to Wroclaw early in 2015. Its current identity is from its first boiler number from the Warsaw Works for the Construction of Industrial Equipment. It is believed to be active at Club Sympatyków Kolein (KSK), Paczkowska 26, 50-503 Wroclaw, Lesser Poland.

Huta Ostrowiec 0-6-0T No. 4015 'Karel'

Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 4, 2021 @ 09:01:20
This locomotive was supplied to Huta Ostrowiec (steelworks) as No. TKh-4015 and worked or was stored until being taken to the United Kingdom in 1993. By 1998 and after major repairs, it worked at Cholsey & Wallingford, Pontypool & Blaenavon, North Norfolk Railway and Avon Valley Railway, Bitton and it is currently active on the latter.

PKP 2-6-2 No. Ol49-77

Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 4, 2021 @ 09:01:13
The locomotive was delivered to Poznan Osobowa towards the end of the year, moving to nearby Leszno, Ostrów Wielkopolski and Zbaszynek before ending up at Jarocin in 1976 and from where it was withdrawn in 1992. A year later it was moved to Randers, Denmark and is now plinthed in front of the Technical Skole, Vennevej 6, DK-8870 Langå, Central Denmark.

PKP 2-6-2 No. Ol49-38 (Displayed as Ol49-27)

Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 4, 2021 @ 09:01:41
This locomotive is Fabryka, Chrzanów No. 2983 of 1952, disguised as scrapped PKP 2-6-2 No. Ol49-27. The locomotive was delivered to Rzeszów but alternated lodgings with Rzeszów and Tarnów during the 1950s; later Jaslo. Debica and Zamosc in the 1960s before going west to Leszno in 1971 and where it stayed for no less that fifteen years. It reached Wolsztyn in 1986 and, unbelievably Elk in 1989 and from where it was withdrawn in 1992. It was eventually plinthed at Korsze station in 2006 bearing the plates of scrapped sister No. Ol49-27 at PKP Dworcowa, 11-430 Korsze, Warmia-Masuria

PKP 2-6-2 No. Ol49-34

Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 4, 2021 @ 08:01:19
This locomotive was delivered to Rzeszów, where it stayed until moving to Rzeszów in 1958 and Przeworsk in 1961. It was withdrawn from here in 1987 and later, in 1991, plinthed outside Przemysl Station. In 1993 it was taken to Chelm and, eventually in 2009, plinthed outside dworcu (station) PKP Chelm, Kolejowa 89, 22-100 Chelm, Lublin

PKP 2-6-2 No. Ol49-12

Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 4, 2021 @ 08:01:28
This locomotive was first delivered to Kutno before swiftly moving on to Czestochowa. Four years later it was briefly at Piotrków Trybunalski before, again, moving on to Lódz Kaliska for an extended period. It spent a decade at Wolsztyn from 1978 and then some time at Przeworsk before being withdrawn in 1992, from where it went to a scrapyard in Herbach Nowych. In 1996, having been saved it went to Stoomcentrum Maldegem (Netherlands) after a major repair carried out at Pyskowice depot and, in 2017, was brought back to Poland and is now under repair at Serwis Pojazdów Szynowych, 88-100 Warsztatowa 1, Rabinek, 88-110 Inowroclaw, Kurovia-Pomerania

PKP 2-6-2 No. Ol49-8

Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 4, 2021 @ 08:01:49
This locomotive was delivered to Rzeszów and spent over six years here until moving to Przeworsk, then Debica and Trzebinia. It was back at Deblin in early 1973 before travelling west to Zagan for a decade or more just a year later, and Przeworsk in 1985 and from where it was withdrawn in 1990. It is now plinthed outside the front of dworcem PKP, Lubomirskich 16, 37-200 Przeworsk,Subcarpathia, Poland

PKP 2-6-2 No. Ol49-9

Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 4, 2021 @ 08:01:00
Ol49-9 was delivered to Rzeszów and moved around Eastern Poland before arrving in Elk early in 1972, and until withdrawal in 1991. In 2015 it was taken south and is now on display at the Museum of Industry and Railways in Silesia, ul. Sienkiewicza 19, 58-200 Dzierzoniów, Lower Silesia

C Nielsen, Tubis-Bege, Denmark 0-4-0WT No. 7

Posted by: ILFORD on Jan 4, 2021 @ 05:01:01
Originally from C Nielsen, Tubis-Bege, Denmark.

Romney Railway 4-6-2 No. 'Ernest W Twining'

Posted by: Russell Newman on Jan 3, 2021 @ 13:01:32
Also at the Shuzenji Romney Railway that had been built and operated in the UK before it was sent to Japan is the 1949 Guest built Pacific "Ernest W Twining" which once ran at the Dudley Zoo Railway and the Fairbourne Railway in North Wales before that line was regauged from 15inch to 12inch gauge. Today the locomotive is on display as its now surplus to requirements.

Romney Railway 2-6-2 No. 'Northern Rock II'

Posted by: Russell Newman on Jan 3, 2021 @ 13:01:42
The first steam locomotive to be built by the Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway for export and use at the Shuzenji Romney Railway in 1989 was of course "Northern Rock II" which she is identical to her twin sister back in the UK and is still going strong today. The Shuzenji Romney Railway where "Northern Rock II" and "Cumbria" operate on is based on the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway and operates using a mixture of steam and diesel locomotives and enclosed saloon carriages.

Romney Railway 2-6-2 No. 'Cumbria'

Posted by: Russell Newman on Jan 3, 2021 @ 13:01:08
In the early 1990’s two 15inch gauge steam locomotives which were built at the workshops of the Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway in the UK were exported to Japan for use at the so called Shuzenji Romney Railway which is located in Niji-no-Sato (Rainbow Park) in Izu, Shizuoka, on the Izu Peninsula in Japan. Their was a lot about this in the railway media at the time. The 1992 built 2-6-2 "Cumbria" was the second locomotive to be built and exported for the railway and is still going strong today.

Great Northern Ry 4-8-2 No. 2507

Posted by: Daniel K on Jan 3, 2021 @ 11:01:21
Looking online I saw a site with photos of #2507 GN on display under cover in a substantial facility the address listed is Lyle, WA 98635. No specific address is given but numerous photos of the engine are included.

C Nielsen, Tubis-Bege, Denmark 0-4-0WT No. 7

Posted by: John Browning on Jan 2, 2021 @ 17:01:14
This is recorded as built to 750mm gauge. Any evidence it has been altered?

Elk River Coal & Lumber Company Climax - 2 truck No. 3 'Bloomsburg'

Posted by: Keiji Muramoto on Jan 2, 2021 @ 13:01:07
On December 22nd, 2020, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization called the RWH Foundation (short for the Foundation for the Preservation of Western Heritage and Steam Trains) was created to undertake the restoration of this Climax locomotive to operate on the Roaring Camp & Big Trees Narrow Gauge Railroad.

Southern Railway 2-6-0 No. 31874 'Brian Fisk'

Posted by: Russell Newman on Jan 2, 2021 @ 11:01:46
With its boiler now being used on U Class No. 31806 to keep her running the sole surviving Southern Railway N Class 2-6-0 No. 31874 will have to wait a bit longer for her return to traffic as it will now use the boiler from 31806 which will have its external and internal exam and a work schedule drawn up in the meantime. It is hoped that it will take 6 to 12 months’ work to get No. 31874 into service again.

Southern Railway 2-6-0 No. 31806

Posted by: Russell Newman on Jan 2, 2021 @ 11:01:45
The ex Southern Railway U Class 2-6-0 No. 31806 will be having a boiler swap will be undertaken in January 2021 from N Class No. 31874 which has been under overhaul at Northern Steam Engineering Limited at Stockton on Tees. No. 31806 was due to come out of service to have its 10 yearly boiler overhaul but the locomotive is still in good condition and the boiler swap will see it still running both the Swanage Railway and heritage railway circuit as well as the mainline with a fresh 10 year boiler ticket.

London & North Eastern Railway 4-6-2 No. 60009 (4488, 9) 'Union of South Africa'

Posted by: David Wilkins on Jan 2, 2021 @ 07:01:01
I know that it is expensive and time consuming, but is there any reason why 60009 could not get a new boiler ticket to allow it to run again. It is an iconic engine that we can ill afford to lose.I am sure that the public would be happy to contribute!!