A big fire on monday night in a Roundhouse in Nuremberg, Germany destroyed a big part of the German Railroads (DB) museum locomotive fleet. Officials are talking about at least 24 destroyed historic locomotives and cars, for example the “Eagle”, which was the first german built locomotive and the last german built steam locomotive, a class 23 of which no other is alive today.
Nobody was hurt, but its very sad…
Ouch - they had some truly beautiful stock in the museum, any word on what’s survived? I know Nuremburg was the big museum site though the DB museum has stock scattered all over Germany.
Wow, that really sucks…any word on how the fire started?
Matthew
Update: I have a list of what was lost - this information from Bahn TV (a satellite TV channel run by Deutsche Bahn). Build dates are included in brackets. For photos of these types try http://www.railfaneurope.net/
Steam Locos:
Adler (Eagle - a 1935 replica of a very early steam loco) also 5 matching cars
01 150 (1935)
23 105 (1959)
45 010 (1941)
50 622 (1940)
86 457 (1942)
Also a Glaskastl (small 0-4-0 tank loco intended for one-main operation on branch lines)
Electric Locos
E 75 09 (1928)
Diesel Locos
V80 002 (1952) - this type is now extinct to the best of my knowledge
211 023-7 (1957)
V200 002 (1954) - one of the pre-production versions of the V200 diesel-hydraulic - not sure if there are any other surviving pre-pro versions though there are some of the later series production examples around
360 150-7 (1957)
360 151-5 (1957)
212 023-6
212 330-5
Railcars (multiple units)
TW 201 (1913)
TW ES165 358 (1929)
VT 98 (1959)
996 775-5
TW 627 001-1
Cars (there may well be more - these are all those listed on their news page)
GW 21 80 313 0978-3
GW 252 91
Here are some actual images:
Some of those might be recoverable, at least as static exhibits if the fire did too much damage to them to restore them to working order. There was one loco over here that was caught in a depot fire and ended up with a bodyside resembling corrugated iron - it survived and was restored to running order.
Yes, as long as the plans are still intact the engines and cars can be rebuilt. The Adler was a 1935 recreation of an 1835 engine, it all all its rolling stock on display can be rebuilt using the same plans, same for the others, at least like Matt says to static display if nothing else. I suspect all will be restored to static display for starts, with individual locos being restored to full steam operation as money and time allow.
Let’s hope nothing like that happens again.
Just bringing this back due to new information. Apparently the 1935-built Adler replica (the loco in the last of the photos Michael found) is to be rebuilt to working order. It’s been moved to DB’s main steam repair depot at Meiningen recently. Apparently their steam experts from there have been assessing the condition of the other locos caught in the fire so we may well see others joining Adler in the future - the Meiningen workshops could probably build a new loco from the wheels up if they wanted to, they’re that well equipped.
Told ya so! Thanks Matt , Thats great news!
Good to hear, but those photos…scary what a good fire can do…
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WHAT A SHAME, AND SUCH A WASTE. Hopefully they will be able to salvage and restore some of the equipment…
Hi! I am looking into the adler in a replica. Small. Non motorised. Interesting past as its family history - hope someone can shed some more light on this item