ÖBB 898
The ÖBB 898.01 is a narrow gauge - steam locomotive and as a single piece also the only representatives of their series . It was built by Henschel in 1941 as a Cn2t model locomotive for the Heeresfeldbahnen of the German Wehrmacht with the serial number 25702. It was given the HF number 20751. First used on the narrow-gauge railways in the war zones of Yugoslavia, it was transferred from Belgrade to St. Pölten in 1944 . From 1945 it was used in St. Pölten as a shunting locomotive for the Mariazell Railway. After the Second World War, the locomotive remained with the Austrian Federal Railways .
In 1953 it was included in the ÖBB numbering scheme as 898.01. On December 1, 1965, it was parked inoperable at the "Lokomotivfriedhof" in Ober-Grafendorf . From there, the locomotive was sold in 1971 and erected as a locomotive monument in Felixdorf, in 1981 it was acquired by the Carinthian Railway Friends Association for its museum railway on the remnant of the Gurktalbahn . It was made operational until 1998, partly as an apprentice training project of Draukraftwerke AG, and is now available for the museum trains of the Gurktalbahn.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Felsinger, Schober: Die Mariazellerbahn (edition 2002), p. 114
- ^ Badge on the driver's cab: Renovated by the apprentices of the training center of the Austrian. Draukraftwerke AG, St. Andrä
literature
- Horst Felsinger, Walter Schober: The Mariazellerbahn . Pospischil Publishing House, Vienna 1971, 1973, 1979, 2002.
- Krobot, Slezak, Sternhart - Narrow gauge through Austria, 4th edition, Verlag Slezak, 1991, ISBN 3-85416-095-X .
- Markus Strässle - Narrow-Gauge Railway Activities in Austria, Slezak Publishing House, 1997, ISBN 3-85416-184-0 .
- Dieter Zoubek - Preserved steam locomotives in and from Austria, self-published, 2004, ISBN 3-200-00174-7 .