PKP1 (KPEV2) 2-6-0F No. TKi3b-48 (7348)
Pila, Greater Poland, Poland 		Location: Interlok
Status: Operational
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1 PKP Polskie Koleje Panstwowe Polish State Railways
2 KPEV Königlich Preußische Eisenbahn-Verwaltung Royal Prussian Railway Administration
Posted: Mar 5, 2026 @ 20:03:31 by
wheel arrangement is 2-6-0F
Posted: Oct 11, 2023 @ 05:10:21 by Achim
Owner: MEM - Museum Railway Minden e. v. In 2014, the existing individual parts of the locomotive (frame and running gear) were transported from Pila (Interlok company) to Benndorf (MaLoWa). A new boiler could have been built beforehand through donations. In September 2020, the locomotive was in final assembly in Benndorf. After a few test drives in October 2022, the remaining work was completed over the winter of 2022/23. On April 4th, 2023, the locomotive was transferred from Klostermansfeld to Minden and on April 9th, the locomotive was used for Easter trips by MEM e.V. on the route from Minden-Oberstadt to Hartum. Home Depot: 52.300385° 8.914249°
Posted: Nov 18, 2020 @ 12:11:18 by Steve Frost, European Editor
Dale W Fickés tells the fascinating tale of this locomotive:

I think this is actually TKi3b-48 now a 2-6-0F (actually built as a T93 conventional 2-6-0T) which was at Konin in 1996. It is Orenstein & Koppel 2717 of 1908. It was delivered as KPEV Kattowitz 7348 and, in 1929, became PKP-A No. TKi3-171; from 1941-1945 it was DRB No. 91 617 then PKP-B No. TKi3-94. In 1956 it was withdrawn from service as a conventional steam locomotive and sent to ZNTK Wroclaw for conversion into a fireless steam locomotive. In1957 it went to KWB Konin, the briquetting plant of Marants (as TKi3b-48, boiler ZNTK Wroclaw 14489/1955), being withdrawn at the end of the century. In 2004, following disassembly it was transported to MaLoWa in Benndorf (Germany). Apparently the steam tank was cut in Poland, the chassis was sold to Museums-Eisenbahn Minden e.V. and a T93 series steam engine with a new boiler, is to be rebuilt on the chassis, currently at Interlok, Zakopianska 1, 64-920 Pila, Greater Poland