Prev You are viewing Note 6883 through 6912 of 30615 Next DR (DRB) 2-10-0 No. 50.3527 (50.1471) Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Mar 7, 2023 @ 04:03:51 Delivery to the DRB - Deutsche Reichsbahn [as No. 50 1471 in 08/1941 and in 1943 it was leased to the CFR - Cailor Ferate Române, Romania in the same guise before being returned the the DR at the conclusion of WW2. In 06/1958 it was called into Aw Stendal for reconstruction and emerged the following month as No. 50 3527, which in O6/1970 was computerised as No. 50 3527-4. In 03/1990 it went into Aw Meiningen for conversion into anon-drivable heating locomotive (NHL), later being used at Bw Templin, followin 1991 by Bw Wahren. Following the DR merger with DB in 01/1992 it was renumbered as 050 527-1, after which it was moved for heating purposes to Bw Pasewalk from 04/1992, being withdrawn in 05/1994 with official retirement in 03/1995 following its sale to Eisenbahnfreunde Ueckertal e. V., Pasewalk as No. 50 3527. There is some doubt as to whether or not the locomotive is still extant ? British Motor Corporation (Steel Company of Wales) 0-6-0ST No. 'Vulcan' (401) ('Thomas Burt') Posted by: Russell Newman on Mar 6, 2023 @ 13:03:39 The ex British Leyland and former Steel Company of Wales Bagnall built 0-6-0ST No. 401 (Works No. 2994) "Vulcan" will be visiting the North Norfolk Railway for the first time as their second visiting locomotive for their Spring Steam Gala from the 14th to 16th of April 2023. DR (DRB) 2-10-0 No. 50.3690-0 (50 1465) Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Mar 6, 2023 @ 12:03:58 Delivery to DRB - Deutsche Reichsbahn as No. k50 1465 as previously noted that joined the emerging DR - Deutsche Reichsbahn during 1945 in the then East Germany, who in Autumn 1961 called it to their Aw Stendal for reconstruction, out-shopped as No. 50 3690. It was computerised in 1970 as No. 50 3690-0 and jearly 1990 ihit went into their Aw Meiningen for conversion non-drivable heating locomotive (NHL), and served at Bw Karl-Marx-Stadt (now Chemnitz). In 01/1992it was renumbered 050 690-7 and withdrawn from Bw Chemnitz-Hilbersdorf. In 04/1993 it went to Dampflok Nossen e. V., Nossen [as No. 50 3690, then in 1995 to DDM - German Steam Locomotive Museum, Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg as No. 50 3690-0, where it still was in 2008. [Loco already in 05.2008 in Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg vh.] GKN, Eastmoors Steelworks 0-6-0ST No. 18 'Jessie' Posted by: Russell Newman on Mar 6, 2023 @ 10:03:56 The ex Eastmoors Steelworks Hunslet built 48150 Class 0-6-0ST No. 18 "Jessie" is now located at the Flour Mill works at Bream in Gloucestershire where the overhaul is now underway there. Nassington Ironstone Quarry 0-6-0ST No. 'Ring Haw' Posted by: Russell Newman on Mar 6, 2023 @ 10:03:18 The ex Nassington Ironstone Quarry Hunslet built 0-6-0ST Works No. 1982 "Ring Haw" has now been relocated to the Flour Mill Works at Bream, Gloucestershire for her overhaul which is now underway there while the boiler is being overhauled at North Norfolk Engineering at Weybourne. London & North Eastern Railway 4-6-0 No. 8572 (61572) Posted by: Russell Newman on Mar 6, 2023 @ 10:03:09 The ex LNER B12 4-6-0 No. 8572 has been relocated to Riley & Son Engineering Ltd. at Heywood in Lancashire for its overhaul to be carried out on its chassis and tender while the boiler is being overhauled by North Norfolk Engineering at Weybourne. DB (DRB) 2-10-0 No. 051 446-3 (50.1446) Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Mar 6, 2023 @ 09:03:36 Delivery to, and acceptance by tyevDRB - Deutsche Reichsbahn in 06/1941 as No. 50 1446 which, in 08/1945 near the conclusion of WW2 found itself in the RBGD -Reichsbahn General Directorate of the British Zone of Occupation, Bielefeld, later to become the HVE - Main administration of the railways of the American and British occupation area, later the Department into the Transport Administration that became, in 1949 the DB - Deutsche Bundesbahn. In 1968 the locomotive was renumbered as 051 446-3 and in 1964 was calledvinto Aw Bremen for replacement boiler, previously carried by No. 50 033, then working until 06/1976 and being withdrawn from Bw Saarbrücken. In 10/1977 it went privately to Heinz-Friederich Klarner, Völklingen, Germany as No. 50 1446 and subsequently stored at St.Wendel Steam Locomotive Museum, before going to the Hermeskeil Steam Locomotive Museum. DR (DRB) 2-10-0 No. 50.3638-9 (50.1437) Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Mar 6, 2023 @ 08:03:06 05/09/1941 Delivery to, and acceptance by the DRB - Deutsche Reichsbahn in 05/1941 as No. 50 1437 that at the end of WW2 found itself in the Soviet sector of Germany and consequentially on the books of the newly created DR - Deutsche Reichsbahn. Towards thevend of 1960 it was called into Aw Stendal for reconstruction, emerging from here in 01/1961 as No. 50 3638, subsequently renumbered and computerised as No. 50 3638-9. It ran until 08/1987 and in 1993 went to the HNG - railway association "Hei Na Ganzlin e. V.", Röbel. In 2018 to D&D Eisenbahngesellschaft mbH, Hagenow as a spare parts donor for 50 3559, its chassis in 2020 being at the Bw Hagenow-Land depotl stored. German American Petroleum 0-4-0F No. None Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Mar 6, 2023 @ 07:03:51 Delivery to DAPG - German-American Petroleum Company, Hamburg, Germany with no additional identification. The company became, in 1950, ESSO AG, Hamburg the locomotive later going to Aral AG, Frankfurt (Main). In 1975 it was installed in a playground in Stresemannallee, Frankfurt (Main), Germany. Metallwerk Lübeck 0-4-0WT No. 9 'Ries' Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Mar 6, 2023 @ 06:03:54 Originally delivered to Blast furnace plant, Lübeck, Germany in 05/1941 as their No. 9. Upon retirement in 1982 it went to the BEM, Nördlingen, where it apparently still resides. DB (DRG) 2-6-2T No. 64.305 Posted by: Russell Newman on Mar 6, 2023 @ 06:03:24 The former Deutsche Bundesbahn (German Federal Railways) 2-6-2T No. 64.305 will be leaving the Nene Valley Railway and the UK as it is to be repatriated back to Germany as it has been sold to new owners out there. No. 64.305 has been at the Nene Valley Railway for almost 40 years, as the locomotive first arrived from Germany in the 1970s first being preserved at the Severn Valley Railway, but was to big to run there so it was moved to the Nene Valley Railway where it ran for most of the 1980s. Having been in storage since then No. 64.305 is now being prepaired for its return to Germany and its new home and will be leaving the Nene Valley Railway soon. VR 4-6-4T No. 1800 Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Mar 6, 2023 @ 05:03:51 This indeed is recorded by Henschel as being built (or at least completed) iand delivered to Finnish (NOT Estonian Railways for which it was built). Haapamäki, is in Keuruu, Finland. VR 4-6-4T No. 1800 Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Mar 6, 2023 @ 05:03:35 This indeed is recorded by Henschel as being built (or at least completed) and delivered to either Estonia or Finland (VR is Finnish Rail NOT Estonian Railways) for which it was built. I will pass on its coal/oil-fired status having not examined it at Haapamåki. I have it only working in Finland from 1945. . DB (DRB) 2-10-0 No. 44.481 Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Mar 6, 2023 @ 03:03:34 Delivery to, and acceptance by, DRB - Deutsche Reichsbahn as No. 44 481 at Göttingen that, in 08/1945, found itself in the RBGD - Reichsbahn General Directorate of the British Zone of Occupation, Bielefeld that, by 1846 became the HVE - Main administration of the railways of the American and British occupation area then, in 1949 incorporation of the HVE as the Railway Department into the Transport Administration, and subsequently the DB - Deutsche Bundesbahn. The locomotive was computerised in 1968 as No. 044 481-0 and worked until 05/1977 when withdrawn from Bw Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck depot, then being used there as a heating boiler until 02/1978 when it was transferred to Thyssen-Henschel AG, Kassel and subsequently installed as a memorial before being moved, in 2011, to outside the TMK - Technik Museum Kassel e. V., Kassel as No. 44 481. Frisco Silver Dollar Line (Peter Bäscher & Sohn) 0-4-0T No. 7 (36) Posted by: Trevlyn Eilers on Mar 5, 2023 @ 14:03:22 This locomotive is just a frame. The boiler originally belonged to 43 but is barely attached. Frisco Silver Dollar Line (Peter Bäscher & Sohn) 2-4-0T No. 43 Posted by: Trevlyn Eilers on Mar 5, 2023 @ 13:03:22 43 is being overhauled. Frisco Silver Dollar Line 0-4-0T No. 76 Posted by: Trevlyn Eilers on Mar 5, 2023 @ 13:03:59 Not built by Skoda. Built by Czech Kolben-Danek. DB (DRB) 2-10-0 No. 044 434-9 (44.434) Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Mar 5, 2023 @ 05:03:50 Delivery to, and acceptance by DRB - Deutsche Reichsbahn in 08/1941 as No.44 434 at Bw Göttingen. In 1945 it found itself in the RBGD - Reichsbahn General Directorate of the British Occupation Zone, Bielefeld that eventually became, in 1949 the HVE as the Railway Department into the Transport Administration, then the DB - Deutsche Bundesbahn . The locomotive was computerised in 01/1968 as No. 044 434-9 and ran in this identity until being withdrawn in 1977 at Bw Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck, in the BD Essen division. In 1979 it was privately acquired by Bernd Falz, St. Wendel, West Germany which went, in 1986, to his collection in Hermeskeil , Germany as No. 44 434, where it currently remains stored. DB (DRB) 2-10-0 No. 044 404-2 (44.404) Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Mar 5, 2023 @ 05:03:25 Delivery to and by DRB - Deutsche Reichsbahn as No. 44 404 at Göttingen following a test drive to Dransfeld, that found itself in 1945 in the D.O.C.F. - Detachment of Occupation des Chemins de Fer Français, Speyer [superior railway supervisory authority of the French occupied zone] though at the end of this year it was a damaged locomotive at Bw Kornwestheim, north of Stuttgart and stored at Bw Freudenstadt. In 08/1947, following the dissolution of the supreme directorate of the German railways in the French-occupied zone it became the resposibility of SWDE - Association of Southwest German Railways, Speyer and in SWDE - Deutsche Bundesbahn, Works Association of the Southwest German Railways, Speyer, later the DB - Deutsche Bundesbahn. It was renumbered (computerised) from 1968 as No. 044 404-2 and in 1975 was fitted at Aw Braunschweig with a Riggenbach counter-pressure brake from No. 044 197 and continued running until 02/1977, when it was withdrawn at Bw Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck. A month later it was preserved by the EDK - Eisenbahnmuseum Darmstadt-Kranichstein e. V., Darmstadt-Kranichstein as No.44 404, where it still resides. DR (DRB) 2-10-0 No. 44.2398-4 (44 398) Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Mar 4, 2023 @ 03:03:13 This is/was Henschel & Sohn 26007/1941 (NOT 26087!) that was delivered and accepted in 04/1941 by the DRB - Deutsche Reichsbahn as No. 44 398 at Bw Göttingen, that found itself in the Soviet sector of what became East Germany in 1945 and therefore consequentially servered with the emerging DR - Deutsche Reichsbahn, also as No. 44 398. In 1966 it was called to the GDR Aw Meiningen for Conversion by the lReichsbahn with a welded replica boiler (Raw Halberstadt 383/1966) and oil main firing, and in 1970 renumberd as No. 44 0398-6. being withdrawn from running in 1982 after which it returned to Aw Meiningen for conversion into a coal-fired driveable a steam dispemser (as part of an L6 investigation) and again renumbered on this occasion as No. 44 2398-4. In 1986 it agan visited Aw Meiningen to remove the drive parts, new type as part of an investigation), and in 1988 leased to VEB pulp and paper factory Trebsen, Trebsen, East Germany] [as steam dispenser]. After another visit to Aw Meiningen it was retired, officially by DB, in 04/1990 following work as Dsp 1 at Bw Leipzig-Wahren until at least 1993. after which it is believed to have been scrapped. Central Mercedita 2-6-2T No. 4 'MARIETTA' Posted by: on Mar 3, 2023 @ 08:03:04 This locomotive burns oil DB (DR) (DRB) 2-10-0 No. 044 397-8 (44.2397-6) (44.397) Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Mar 3, 2023 @ 08:03:17 Delivery in late 03/1941to DRB - Deutsche Reichsbahn as No. 44 397 and acceptance in early 04/1941 at Bw Göttingen that after WW2 found itself in the Soviet sector of what became East Germany who operated the then DR - Deutsche Reichsbahn. Towards the end of 1964 it was called into Aw Meiningen to later be fitted with Oil-firing equipment (as part of an L4 investigation)] departing from here the following year in its original identity but in 1970 was re-numbered as 44 0397-8 until being withdrawn in late 1981. It went back to Aw Meiningen in early 1983 to be re-converted to coal fuel but with drive-parts removed, then emerging as No. 44 2397-6. During 1990/1991 it was used heating locomotive in Bw Nordhausen, prior to being stored here and from 01/1992 under thevguise of the DB was renumbered 044 397-8 prior to retirement later that year when it was purchased by the HEP - IG Historische Eisenbahn Paderborn, succeeded in 1994 by the EBG Eisenbahn-Betriebs-Gesellschaft mbH, Binz (Rügen)-Prora where it then went to the Railway and Technology Museum Rügen, Binz (Rügen)-Prora and from 2007 to the DP Deutsche Privatbahn GmbH, Hameln. In 2019 it was again at the oldtimer museum Rügen, Binz for display,whose name was changed in 09/2022. DR (DRB) 2-10-0 No. 44.2394-3 (44.394) Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Mar 3, 2023 @ 04:03:31 Delivery to DRB - Deutsche Reichsbahn as No. 44 394 and acceptance in 03/1941 that fiund itself in the Soviet sector of what became East Germany and from 1945 ran with the newly created DR - Deutsche Reichsbahn in its original identity, running until 09/1969 when it was shutdown and withdrawn. However the following year it was redesignated as No. 44 2394-3 before, in 1972 being converted at Aw Meiningen into a steam dispenser, later working from 1986 at Bw Görlitz and subsequently Bw Schwarzenberg (now a museum depot) until 1993 when it was sold at the end of the year to the Bernd Falz Collection as No. 44 394, initially at Basdorf, north of Berlin; then from 1996 at Jüterbog Steam Locomotive Museum, Jüterbog-Altes Lager and finally in 2001 at the former Bw (freight depot Steam Locomotive Museum Falkenburg (Elster), Germany. DB (DRB) 2-10-0.3Cyl No. 044.389 (44 389) Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Mar 3, 2023 @ 03:03:02 Delivery to the DRB - Deutsche Reichsbahn as No.44 389 at Bw Göttingen and found itself in the RBGD - Reichsbahn General Directorate of the British Occupation Zone, Bielefeld in 1945 which then eventually became the HVE as the Railway Department into the Transport Administration, predecessor in 1949 of the DB - Deutsche Bundesbahn, under which it retained its original identity that was not changed until 1968 when computerised as No.044 389-5 and ran until early 1976, being withdrawn from Bw Ottergen, west of Hildesheim, Nordrhein-Westfalen. Shortly afterwards it was preserved by local locomotive drivers at Bw Altenbeken, close to Paderborn, and installed as a memorial at the Eggemuseum, Altenbeken the following yeat. Kilnhurst Tar Works 0-4-0ST No. 'Henry Ellison' Posted by: Russell Newman on Mar 2, 2023 @ 10:03:21 With its loaned visit now over, the ex Kilnhurst Tar Works Andrew Barclay built 0-4-0ST Works No. 2217 "Henry Ellison" has now left the Cambrian Heritage Railway and has relocated back home to the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway at Wirksworth in Derbyshire. Heeresfeldbahn (ÖBB) 0-6-0T+T No. 4 'Nikki + Frank S' (798.101) Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Mar 2, 2023 @ 09:03:03 This locomotive was built to a gauge of 750mm in WW2 for the (German Heeresfeldbahn) HFB (rather than the ÖBB) as a 0-6-0T for the Rehagen-Klausdorf Railway as their number 25982, as the construction identity, but delivered to Army Test Sute, Mittersill. In 1945 it worked on the Pinzgauer local railway and, in 1948 went to the Bregenzerwaldbahn, then operated by the post-war ÖBB) as their No. 798.101 where it was regauged to 760mm width. In 1972 it went to Hamburg, Germany based company Spranger & Büll. In 1980 it was purchased by W Seidensticker, Bielefeld and became the fictional Class 99. Heeresfeldbahn (ÖBB) 0-6-0T+T No. 4 'Nikki + Frank S' (798.101) Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Mar 2, 2023 @ 09:03:52 Conversion at MaLoWa Bahnwerkstatt GmbH, Benndorf, Gauge change from 750 mm to 600 mm and .07/2008 - 02/2020 loan to DKBM - Dampf-Kleinbahn Mühlenstroth e. V., Gütersloh as No. 4 Name: Nicki + Frank S.]. In 2020 to DKBM - Dampf-Kleinbahn Mühlenstroth e. V., Gütersloh. FC del Este 2-6-0 No. 7 Posted by: on Mar 2, 2023 @ 08:03:53 A similar BLW mogul that worked on the same railroad still exists in Humacao, that being BLW #58417 from 1925. It was their #5 and was named “La Quinta”. It exists in Derelict condition without its tender. LOCOMOTIVE COORDINATES: (18.1385977, -65.8319775) Heeresfeldbahn (ÖBB) 0-6-0T+T No. 4 'Nikki + Frank S' (798.101) Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Mar 2, 2023 @ 07:03:52 This locomotive was built to a gauge of 750mm in WW2 for the (German Heeresfeldbahn) HFB (rather than the ÖBB) as a 0-6-0T for the Rehagen-Klausdorf Railway as their number 25982, as the construction identity, but delivered to Army Test Sute, Mittersill. In 1945 it worked on the Pinzgauer local railway and, in 1948 went to the Bregenzerwaldbahn, then operated by the post-war ÖBB) as their No. 798.101 where it was regauged to 760mm width. In 1972 it went to Hamburg, Germany based company Spranger & Büll. In 1980 it went to W Seidensticker, Bielefeld and became the fictional No. 99 4653 named Nicki S, on loan and in 1980 to the DKBM, Gütersloh as their No. 8. In 1984 to the Jagstattalbahn and in 1990 back to the Bregenzerwaldbahn. In 1993 it was destined for the Army museum, Ingolstadt, Germany and in 1994 actually went to Bw Putbus as No 99 4652 (slight different from previously) and where it was in 2004/2005. I have no record of this being 600mm gauge or it being a number 4; though it probably can be a 0-6-0T+T ? Red River & Gulf Railway 4-6-0 No. 106 Posted by: Janet on Mar 1, 2023 @ 23:03:24 Under cosmetic restoration.

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