Dampf-Kleinbahn Mühlenstroth(JZ) 0-6-0T No. 9 'Francesca S' (25.325)
Gütersloh, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany 		Location: Dampfkleinbahn Mühlenstroth
Status: Awaiting Restoration
Posted: Feb 6, 2023 @ 04:02:21 by Dale W Fickés
This locomotive was delivered new, in 1942, to the German Military Heeresfeldbahn as their No. 25325, being initially stored at Nazi premises in Nuremburg, the identity being the same as its build number. In 1947 it went to Alfred Kunz GmbH, München where it was converted to a tender locomotive with extended water tanks for work at a lignite minep near Schwandorf, possibly from its original 600mm gauge to 750/760mm gauge. In 1952 it went to the Maglic Forest Railway, Foca, Republica Srpska in south-eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, on the banks of the Drina River, possibly working at a local steel factory. Whilst here it could formally have entered JŽ statistics as No. 25-325, a derivative of its boiler identity? and worked locally until the mid 1970s and where it remained until 1981 when purchased privately by Walter Seidensticker, Bielefeld, Germany later being in the workshop of the TWE, Teutoburger Wald-Eisenbahn, Langerich. Germany. It went on loan, in 10/ 1988 DKBM - Dampf-Kleinbahn Mühlenstroth e. V., Gütersloh [ as their No.9 and named BIELEFELD and from 10/1991 to 1996 on loan with the lBPE - Berliner Parkeisenbahn GmbH, Berlin-Volkspark Wuhlheide. From 1998 to 02/2010 it went on loan to the 1DKBM - Dampf-Kleinbahn Mühlenstroth e. V., Gütersloh as No. 9 and their named FRANCESCA S. It later went to the Walter Seidensticker Railway Foundation, Bielefeld and in 2015 was shutdown. In 03/2920 it re-appeared at the DKBM - Dampf-Kleinbahn Mühlenstroth e. V., Gütersloh, Germany as No. 9 FRANCESCA S.