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Chesapeake & Ohio RR 2-6-6-2 No. 1309Posted by: Matthew Gardner on Jan 1, 2021 @ 18:01:50
Please change status to operational.
SZD 2-10-0 No. L-3108Posted by: Steve Frost, European Editor on Jan 1, 2021 @ 10:01:25
ILFORD records that the loco was seen in transit in the Moscow area in July 2020. The destination is unknown.
Toledo, Angola & Western 2-8-2 No. 100Posted by: Scott kolb on Jan 1, 2021 @ 09:01:00
Looking for information on this locomotive as I may be in possession of its manufacturer build plate and I am very curious about the locomotives history.
Chesapeake & Ohio RR 2-6-6-2 No. 1309Posted by: Russell Newman on Jan 1, 2021 @ 05:01:06
The former Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Baldwin built 2-6-6-2 No. 1309 steamed and moved for the very first time on New Years Eve 2020. This marks the end of its restoration as No. 1309 will enter service on the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad in 2021 as the largest steam locomotive to run on a American tourist railroad.
PKP 2-10-0 No. TY51-183Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Dec 31, 2020 @ 15:12:41
This locomotive was a welcome addition to the far-east PKP fleet in Zurawica when delivered from the factory. It spent eight years, from October 1963, later at Skierniewice, before moving due west to Rzepin for more than a decade, in 1976. It was withdrawn from service at the very end of 1987, at Kostrzyn depot before being placed in a small garden at the entrance to Szczecin Port Centralny depot, before reaching Wolsztyn in July 2011. After a decade it went to store at nearby Powodowa, a small village station with adjacent sidings a few km distance to the west of Wolsztyn, before returning just a year later during 2012 for another three years. It again went to Powodowa in 2015 but was moved yet again, on this occasion to Poznan where it was plinthed outside the Inea Stadium, ul. Bulgarska 17, 60-320 Poznan, Greater Poland
PKP (DRB) 2-10-0 No. Ty2-406( 52.4770)Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Dec 31, 2020 @ 14:12:14
This locomotive was both ordered and delivered to the DRB as No. 52 4770 before joining the PKP in 1945 at Rybnik. It moved around Silesia and was at Czechowice Dziedzice towards the end of 1954. Later it spent nearly 30 years at Jarocin before arriving at Wolszytn in 1987 from where it was withdrawn from service and sent into store at nearby Powodowa, a small village station with adjacent sidings a few km distance to the west of Wolsztyn, before returning during 2016, where it now stands as a wreck with several others in a similar condition between station and depot, off Dworcowa 6, 64-200 Wolsztyn, Greater Poland.
PKP (DRB) 2-10-0 No. Ty5-10 (50.0451)Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Dec 31, 2020 @ 14:12:47
This locomotive was ordered by, and delivered to the 846 and at DRB as No. 50 451 where it spent a few years before joining the PKP as No. TY5-10 in 1945. It was at Krzyz in 1946 and at Poznan Glówny Towarowa in 1947 for over thirty years before being withdrawn in October 1978. In 1994 it was taken to Ostrowa Wlkp. for renovation before arriving at Wolsztyn early the following year and stayed here until 2011 when taken for a brief stay with the line-up at nearby Powodowa, a small village station with adjacent sidings a few km distance to the west of Wolsztyn, before returning during 2012, where it now stands with several others in a similar condition between station and depot, off Dworcowa 6, 64-200 Wolsztyn, Greater Poland.
PKP 2-10-0 No. Ty45-379Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Dec 31, 2020 @ 14:12:57
This locomotive first saw service at Kraków Plaszów for a decade before moving to nearby Prokocim depot. It spent over two decades at Zbaszynek, via Ostrów Wlkp. and reached Wolsztyn in 1989, working from here until January 2003. From 2011 it was stored at nearby Powodowa, a small village station with adjacent sidings a few km distance to the west of Wolsztyn, before returning. as a wreck, at the end of 2016 and where it now stands with several others in a similar condition between station and depot, off Dworcowa 6, 64-200 Wolsztyn, Greater Poland
PKP 2-10-0 No. Ty51-223Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Dec 31, 2020 @ 14:12:17
This locomotive, one of the last steam locomotives built for the PKP, was delivered to Piotrków Trybunalski but soon moved to Warszawa Wschodnia, where it stayed for three years. It had a brief period at Skarzysko Kamienna in 1969 before spending nearly two decades at Rzepin from 1970. It reached Wolsztyn in October 1989 and, from where it worked passenger services through to 2000 before being withdrawn. It is now effectively stored (though officially displayed) in the line-up opposite the station (as pictured) off Dworcowa 6, 64-200 Wolsztyn, Greater Poland
PKP (DRB) 2-10-0 No. Ty3-2 (Ty43-126) (42.1427)Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Dec 31, 2020 @ 14:12:23
The identity of this locomotive is somewhat confusing as it bears no plates but has its original PKP historical designation number of Ty3-2 that it bore from 1946 - 1952, painted on the smokebox door. It is, however a derivative of a DRB Class 42, this example being produced by F. Schichau, Elbing No. 4448 of 1944 and delivered to the DRB as No. 42 1427. It was first designated No Ty3-2 with the PKP after cessation of hostilities until April 1952, when it was re-numbered to the end of Class Ty43 as No. Ty43-126, i.e. that of a successor to Class 42. In late 1958 it was at Poznan Franowo, reaching Wolsztyn in March 1990 when it then bore its historical identity, No. Ty3-2, and ran in traffic until October 2002 when it was then taken to Gniezno for possible repairs. The repairs did not appear to materialise and, in 2010, it was taken to the parent depot of Wolsztyn, Lesno, where it remains as a wreck at PKP Cargo depot, ul. Zacisze, 64-100 Leszno, Greater Poland.
PKP 2-10-0 No. Ty42-148Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Dec 31, 2020 @ 14:12:11
This locomotive is, of course a DRB Kreigslok design but was produced too late for service with that company and it may have been designated 52 4051, a number it could never have operated in this guise on the German railway. Instead it was delivered from Fabryka, Chrzanów as No. 1647 in 1946. a year after WWII finished, to the PKP depot in Katowice in its current guise or perhaps under Soviet recognition, though I can find no record of this, as No. TE-4051. Whilst operating, mostly within Silesia - it reached Wolsztyn towards the end of 1985 - it was last fired and then withdrawn near the end of 2010, and six months later was taken for storage at Powodowa, a small village station with adjacent sidings a few km distance to the west of Wolsztyn, before returning as a wreck, at the end of 2016 and where it now stands with several others in a similar condition between station and depot, off Dworcowa 6, 64-200 Wolsztyn, Greater Poland.
PKP (DRB) 2-10-0 No. Ty2-1298 (52.3286)Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Dec 31, 2020 @ 14:12:27
This locomotive had a brief ownership with the DRB when delivered as No. 52 3286 but very soon went of the books of Soviet Railways as MPS TE 3286. It was not until the end of 1962 that it registered by the PKP with a first allocation in early 1963 at Zajaczkowo Tczewskie and shortly afterwards to Jaworzyna Slaska in Silesia. It first worked from Wolsztyn in 1987 but was actually withdrawn from Gniezno in 1992, having been based there for a couple of years. It was nearly a decade before being taken from there to Wolsztyn again in 2001, but in 2011 it went to Powodowa, a small village station with adjacent sidings a few km distance to the west of Wolsztyn, before returning as a wreck, five years later where it now stands with several others in a similar condition between station and depot, off Dworcowa 6, 64-200 Wolsztyn, Greater Poland.
PKP 2-10-0 No. Ty43-123Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Dec 31, 2020 @ 14:12:24
Delivered to Zbaszynek from the factory, this locomotive never strayed far from its home depot, until it reached Chelm in 1960 and before returning to Gniezno in 1984 and eventually, Wolsztyn in 1989 where it ran until 1999 and was withdrawn here in 2000. It is now part of the line-up between station and depot, off Dworcowa 6, 64-200 Wolsztyn, Greater Poland.
PKP (DRB) 2-10-0 No. Ty2-1086 (52.5123)Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Dec 31, 2020 @ 14:12:37
This locomotive was produced for the DRB as No. 52 5123but soon adopted its PKP identity when allocated to Krzyz Wlkp. in 1945. It spent a couple of years travelling in Western Poland before going to Kraków Plaszów in 1947 and several other Silesian cities, including Chabówka in 1952. It reached Wolsztyn in 1987 from where, in 1994, it was permanently adapted to act as Stationary Boiler in the hall of the locomotive shed at Leszno, lasting until 2011 when it was withdrawn and where it remains, as a wreck at the PKP Cargo depot, ul. Zacisze, 64-100 Leszno, Greater Poland.
PKP 2-8-2T No. TKt48-143Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Dec 31, 2020 @ 14:12:52
This locomotive was delivered from the factory to Nasielsk and fifteen years later went to Siedlce. In 1977 it went to Malaszewicze and arrived at Wolsztyn in 1990, where it worked until 1998 and from where it was withdrawn from service near the end of 2012. It is now stored, alongside several others, next to the railway station off Dworcowa 6, 64-200 Wolsztyn, Greater Poland.
PKP 2-10-0 No. Ty43-92Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Dec 31, 2020 @ 14:12:52
This locomotive was delivered to nearby Zielona Góra moving not very far to Zbaszynek in 1960, and Poznan Franowo in 1961. It worked from Gniezno in 1980 and was withdrawn there in 1992, being stored/displayed at Choszcznie during 1994. Since 2001 it has been stored/on-display next to the railway station off Dworcowa 6, 64-200 Wolsztyn, Greater Poland
PKP (KPEV) (DRB) 2-6-0T No. TKi3-87 (7247) (91.1041)Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Dec 31, 2020 @ 13:12:19
This locomotive was delivered to KPEV as Posen 7247 and, from 1920 Osten 7247. It became in 1925 DRB No. 91 1041 and joined the PKP fleet in 1945. During 1957 it was at Leszno, a satelite depot of Poznan Glówmy Towarowa but was moved to Ostrów Wlkp. in 1962. In 1964 it was transferred to the Potato Industrial Plant, Lubon then withdrawn from PKP service by 1972. In 1988 it was given to the Poznan Railway Modelers Club and taken to that city. It had a major repair at nearby ZNTK Gniezno in 1995 and later went to Wolsztyn, where it stood outside for several years. It was back at Gniezno in 2001, but afterwards this time in 2010 went on display in the new museum at the former depot in ul. Engine house 1, 63-200 Jarocin, Greater Poland
PKP 2-8-2T No. TKt48-147Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Dec 31, 2020 @ 13:12:24
he locomotive was one of the later products provided from its builder to Rybnik in May 1956 and spent most of its time her until moving to Racibórz in 1974. It was at Klodzko in 1987 before, at the end of 1992, going to Opole as a Stationary Boiler. It moved to the store line Reserve at Choszczno in 1994 and was withdrawn from here in 2000 before being taken from nearby Krzyz to ZNTK Gniezno. It may have been repaired externally before going to Wolsztyn for a decade. In 2011 it went for store at nearby Powodowo, a small village station with adjacent sidings a few km distance to the west of Wolsztyn, for a few years, returning to the depot at the end of 2016. In Spring of 2019 it went for display in the village of Stefanowo, in one of five villages with that name within Greater Poland!
PKP 2-8-2 No. Pt47-65Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Dec 31, 2020 @ 13:12:38
The locomotive was delivered to Ostrów Wielkopolski, then posted to Piotrków Trybunalski. A decade later it was back at its original depot followed, in 1966, by Poznan Glówny Osobowa. It was withdrawn from service in 1988 but re-instated a year later, repaired and instead of being sold, as intended, went to Wolsztyn in 1990. Between 2001 and 2009 it went back and forth to both ZNTK Gneizno (before closure) and parent depot, Leszno for repairs and, in 2012, was taken to Chabówka and was not returned to Wolsztyn until 2013 following repairs. It is now an active member of the fleet at PKP Cargo, ul. Fabryczna 1, 64-200 Wolsztyn, Greater Poland
London Midland & Scottish Railway 4-6-0 No. 45596 (5596) 'Bahamas'Posted by: Russell Newman on Dec 31, 2020 @ 10:12:08
In 2021 the ex LMS Jubilee Class 4-6-0 No. 45596 "Bahamas" will heading down to London for the first time in preservation as its owners the Bahamas Locomotive Society have teamed up with Steam Dreams to operate a number of railtours with them in 2021.
Staveley Iron & Steel Co 0-6-0ST No. 24 'Stamford'Posted by: Russell Newman on Dec 31, 2020 @ 10:12:05
The ex Staveley Iron & Steel Co. Avonside built 0-6-0ST No. 24 "Stamford" has been on loan to Rocks By Rail: The Living Ironstone Museum formerly the Rutland Railway Museum from the Bluebell Railway for a number of years now. But now the Bluebell Railway has offed the locomotive for sale to the museum as it does not fit in its Southern locomotive heritage. So the museum has now started a appeal to raise funds to buy the locomotive and keep it for good in Rutland.
PKP (DRB) 4-6-2 No. Pm36-2 'Piekna Helena' (18.602)Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Dec 31, 2020 @ 09:12:27
The locomotive in now numbered in its original identity. The build details being correct, though it did enter service for a very short period pre-war as No. Pm36-2. It soon became No. 18 602 with the DRB and, probably as a result of enemy action during the intervening years, was numbered Pm36-1 when returning to the PKP at Bydgoszcz Glówny in May 1947, having earlier been sequestrated by the ZSR and ÖBB. It had a spell at Torun Glówny in 1952, and later in 1959 at Gdynia Grabówek. It was withdrawn from service at Ostrów Wielkopolski in 1970 and taken, via Tarnowsky Góry to the Warsaw Railway Museum, who now own the locomotive, and where it was displayed until 1995 when it went for a major overhaul at ZNTK Pila, after which in the same year it was loaned Wolsztyn. Since that time it was back and forth to ZNTK Gneizno whilst this facility was open, the Leszno from 2008. It was withdrawn from service, again, in 2012 and is now awaiting repairs at PKP Cargo, ul. Fabryczna 1, 64-200 Wolsztyn, Greater Poland.
PKP 2-6-2 No. Ol49-99 (Running as Ol49-69)Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Dec 31, 2020 @ 09:12:01
This locomotive is running falsely on the plates of Ol49-69 (which is still extant as a wreck in Leszno). No. 99 joined the PKP at Klodzko and apparently spent two decades here before moving to Jaworzyna Slaska, and shortly afterwards Ostroleka. From 1979 it spent another fifteen years at Krzyz before, in 1994, moving to store in Choszczno and being withdrawn from there in 2000. It had a major repair at ZNTK Gneizno in 2001, from where it was sent in an active state as No. Ol49-69 to Wolsztyn. It was loaned, in 2006, to Gdynia for the summer seasonal Costerina service and afterwards, back to Gniezno for more repairs. By 2009 it was found that the external boiler certificate had expired so, on this occasion - Gnizno having now closed - it was taken to its parent depot of Leszno for repairs. It was not until 2012 that it was back at Wolsztyn but, in 2015, the deadline for external boiler inspection had again been exceeded and it was late 2017 before the locomotive had been again to Leszno for repairs and back again working at PKP Cargo, ul. Fabryczna 1, 64-200 Wolsztyn, Greater Poland.
PKP 2-8-2 No. Pt47-106Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Dec 31, 2020 @ 09:12:49
This locomotive arrived at Poznan Glówny Osobowa quite early in its build year and, apparently, stayed here until being moved to Szczecin in 1964. It went a couple of time to Bialogard, and to Kostrzyn in 1987 and from where it was withdrawn the following year before being taken to Slupsk. In 1994 it was on display at Choszczno and, in 2001, was put on display at the side of the station, off Dworcowa 6, 64-200 Wolsztyn, Greater Poland.
PKP 2-6-2 No. Ol49-81Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Dec 31, 2020 @ 09:12:48
This locomotive initially went to Deblin at the end of its build year and around a decade later was at Kielce, Poznan Glówny Osobowa and Zbaszynek. It worked from Leszno in 1974 and, from 1985, Wolsztyn. It was withdrawn from service here in 2000 and the following year passed (and failed) the deadline for a boiler inspection. It is now dumped here as a wreck and remains on store lines opposite the station, off Dworcowa 6, 64-200 Wolsztyn, Greater Poland.
PKP 2-6-2 No. Ol49-85Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Dec 31, 2020 @ 09:12:12
This locomotive was first delivered to Poznan Glówny Osobowa depot at the start of the year and moved around locally until reaching Olsztyn in 1966. It returned to Torun Kluczyki at the start of 1975 and, in 1991 had reached north to Elk and, in 1994, Choszczno (probably where dumped in Reserve). It was withdrawn in 2000 and, a couple of months later was conveyed from Krzyz to Gniezno and shortly afterwards, in 2001, taken to Wolsztyn as a wreck, where it remains on store lines opposite the station, off Dworcowa 6, 64-200 Wolsztyn, Greater Poland.
PKP 2-6-2 No. Ol49-7Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Dec 31, 2020 @ 09:12:08
This was an early member of the class, first delivered to Rzeszów soon after the following New Year. It saw work at Tarnów, Deblin and Rozwadów before Gniezno in 1984; Zagan in 1988 and, finally, Wolsztyn in 1993. In the past couple of decades it has been back and forth to ZNTK Gneizno, between working regular services and before the latters final closure, for repairs, now taken on by Leszno depot, the most recent being in 2012 when it was returned and is now regarded as a wreck at the PKP (now Cargo) depot, ul. Fabryczna 1, 64-200 Wolsztyn, Greater Poland.
PKP 2-6-2 No. Ol49-60Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Dec 31, 2020 @ 09:12:43
This locomotive was delivered to Warszawa Zachodnia before moving to Warszawa Odolany, Lódz Kaliska and Zbaszynek in successive years. It was at Poznan Glowny Osobowa in 1958 and, five years later in Leszno where it spent a decade between here and Ostrów Wlkp. From the middle of 1979 to the ealy 1990s it spent time at Krzyz Wlkp. (where photographed in 1992) and in 1994 it went to Choszczno, only to be withdrawn in 1998. It was moved to Wolszytn in 2001 then, in 2010, taken to Leszno for external renovation where it remains as a wreck at PKP Cargo depot, ul. Zacisze, 64-100 Leszno, Greater Poland.
PKP 2-6-2 No. Ol49-59Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Dec 31, 2020 @ 09:12:54
A locomotive delivered to Kutno, where it stayed for nine years before moving to Lódz Kaliska and later northwards to Elk in 1966, before Suwalki and Bialystok in the mid 1970s. It arrived in Wolsztyn during the Autumn of 1982 and has made several visits for repairs at Gneizno during the past twenty years and upon closure of that ZNTK, in 2014, to Leszno. It has generally proved an excellent runner and in currently in active service at the PKP (now Cargo) depot, ul. Fabryczna 1, 64-200 Wolsztyn, Greater Poland.
PKP 2-6-2 No. Ol49-111Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Dec 31, 2020 @ 09:12:22
Introduced from the factory to Poznan Glówny Osobowa, it was still in the city a decade later. By 1965 it had moved to Olsztyn and in 1972 was Sierpc. It was withdrawn in 1991 and, in 1994, handed over to the open-air museum in Jaworzyna Slaska after repairs at ZNTK Pila. It was placed on loan to Wolsztyn in 2000, and permanently transferred towards the end of 2001. It was taken for major repairs to Gneizno in 2004 which lasted a year to late 2005. Two years later, in 2007, it went to the PKP depot in Leszno, where the repairs again began by dis-assembling the steam engine into its initial parts, now as a wreck. However, the work is still at a stand-still here at PKP Cargo depot, ul. Zacisze, 64-100 Leszno, Greater Poland
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