But which one?
Robert Dylewski, who has established his reputation as a doughty defender of the remaining stock of Polish steam locomotives, sent out an alert today that the Labedy steelworks in Gliwice have received a pile of steel scrap which is undoubtedly a recently cut up steam locomotive boiler.
Robert’s informant speculates that the steel comes from Ty45-6 which was stored at Kezdierzyna Kozla. As yet, this has still to be confirmed.
BTWT will report back on this story as further information reaches us. However, one thing is certain – as the new cold winds of the economic crisis blow ever stronger – the future of Poland’s ‘remainder steam stock’ (i.e. not allocated to specific museums) looks decidedly bleak.
Tuesday, 15 January 2013 at 22:29 |
Nooo! I hope it’s not the Ty45-6! It could be one of the locomotives from Nysa.
I was there a few times. here is a picture I made.
Tuesday, 15 January 2013 at 23:51 |
Is there any narrow gauge locos and rolling stock at risk?
Sunday, 27 January 2013 at 20:10 |
Ty45-6 is still in Kędzierzyn as it used to, the boiler chunks ready to be fed into the Łabędy furnace could not have been bits of a Ty2 boiler, due to the construction and positioning of firebox stiffenings. So far no Ty45/Pt47 were reported missing – maybe a stationary boiler nobody knew about?
Monday, 28 January 2013 at 04:46 |
https://polishrail.wordpress.com/2008/06/22/7-steam-engines-on-death-row/
Could it be one of these or are they long gone?
Monday, 28 January 2013 at 20:27 |
Unlikely. These were cut up in situ a long time ago.
Saturday, 14 January 2017 at 23:34 |
I am wondering if the cut up engine could have been Ty42-149 from Bydgoszcz? No sign of the engine or the small turntable it lived on in recent photos on Google maps. It showed clearly in older views.