O&K2908

PRESERVED ORENSTEIN & KOPPEL STEAM LOCOMOTIVES

LOCATION Herr Horst Kassel

RAILWAY NUMBER

RAILWAY Casseler Basalt AG

WHEEL ARRANGEMENT Bt

HORSE POWER 50

GAUGE 750

BUILDER O&K

BUILDER’S NUMBER 2908

YEAR BUILT 1908

PREVIOUS
RAILWAYS AND NUMBERS Cöln-Frechener Cristall Sandwerke GmbH, Frechen

CONDITION excellent, operating

PHOTO BY Tadeusz Suchorolski

PLACE AND DATE Bialosliwie, Poland, 26.9.1992, after overhaul at Pila

NOTES Originally delivered to Cöln-Frechener Cristall Sandwerke GmbH, Frechen, a 750mm gauge line, this loco later worked at Casseler Basat AG, where it may have been regauged to 600mm. After withdrawal from service there it was at the Verkehrsschulgarten in Kassel, passing in 1987 to the Eisenbahnfreunde Bebra. In 1991 it was acquired by Herr Michael Horst of Kassel, and overhauled at Pila works in Poland. A report that it was 2909 was false.

LOCATION	Herr Horst Kassel
RAILWAY NUMBER
RAILWAY	Casseler Basalt AG
WHEEL ARRANGEMENT	Bt
HORSE POWER	50
GAUGE	750
BUILDER	O&K
BUILDER’S NUMBER	2908
YEAR BUILT	1908
PREVIOUS RAILWAYS AND NUMBERS	Cöln-Frechener Cristall Sandwerke GmbH, Frechen
CONDITION	excellent, operating
PHOTO BY	Tadeusz Suchorolski
PLACE AND DATE	Bialosliwie, Poland, 26.9.1992, after overhaul at Pila
NOTES	Originally delivered to Cöln-Frechener Cristall Sandwerke GmbH, Frechen, a 750mm gauge line, this loco later worked at Casseler Basat AG, where it may have been regauged to 600mm. After withdrawal from service there it was at the Verkehrsschulgarten in Kassel, passing in 1987 to the Eisenbahnfreunde Bebra. In 1991 it was acquired by Herr Michael Horst of Kassel, and overhauled at Pila works in Poland. A report that it was 2909 was false.