At least that's what I think we're looking at, not knowing any German at all:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVe1ZktfejY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZJOwC1S2BE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fPAVn59H8A

Found some additional material, including shop footage with a drop table. How many of us wish we could get our mitts on a facility like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gKpI8Y2v9c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsMfRSzv1sY

A lighter look:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDcrtTkPn5I

Thanks for sharing. In a similar vain, an Italian film, "Death of a Locomotive" in youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkkUtzpu ... xI&index=2

Did some more checking on that shop, and apparently it's a facility of some note--Dampflokwerk Meiningen, the former main backshop for the East German rail system, and now trying to stay afloat with steam loco restoration and new build work--this is the outfit that built the boiler for the Tornado, and has also built at least one new 2-8-2T from scratch for a German road.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiningen_ ... tive_Works

http://www.dampflokwerk.de/

Official video, in two versions (German and English). Of particular interest are the shots of some sort of flue work with a hammer device (10:40, in the English version, all time notes are for this one), the roller brackets for boilers that enable a boiler to be positioned at an appropriate angle for work (11:00), the universal poses of some shopmen in a photo (11:23), various boiler work shots, and the drawing library (15:54, I almost expect to see Will Woodard come into the room!):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxHBzVQ64ww

General photo search result:

https://www.google.com/search?q=www.dam ... 0AH-_4DgBA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFXlw1f_Pkw

Documentary on the overhaul of a locomotive. Where else can you see not only the crane wheeling a locomotive (19:00), but an indicator card mechanism at work (24:30)?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T4YWTjKoPc

This facility looks huge! Don't you wish we still had something like this here?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... werk04.jpg

I can't help but think we scrapped steam too soon, and other countries are learning from our mistakes. Unfortunately, it seems we're too stubborn to learn the lessons back.

I had a nice tour of the Meiningen Works in 2010 and it is an amazing facility. At the time I was there the shops had over a dozen locomotives of various sizes and gauges in for rebuilding. One thing that impressed me was a brand new boiler with a Belpaire firebox. I immediately thought of a certain Pennsy K4.

-JH

The YouTube videos posted by J3a-614 on April 14 were filmed in Spiez, Kanton Bern, Switzerland, in a shop owned by a Swiss railway corporation called BLS-Loetschbergbahn AG (website http://www.bls.ch), which forms a link in a major rail route through the Alps into northern Italy.

The Pacific type locomotive that suffers damage early in the first of the Spiez videos was built for the German national railway in 1936 and numbered 01 202. It was retired in 1975, and later that same year brought to Switzerland by a group of steam locomotive enthusiasts. It is owned and operated by the Verein 01 202, based in Lyss, about a dozen miles as the crow flies northwest of Bern, the Swiss capital.

The Verein apparently runs ten or so excursions/year in Switzerland and neighboring countries with the locomotive when it is not in for overhaul. Unfortunately its website is in German only, but Wikipedia has an article in English on the 01 Class. The URL is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRG_Class_01

The YouTube video with URL below was recorded on a run of about 24 miles 01 202 made while hauling an excursion train from Neuchatel to Les Verrieres in Switzerland and shows some hard work by the fireman (German: Heizer), who has an assistant to operate the fire door. The average gradient over that stretch is 1.15 %.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKzEInRyFds

Right now the 01 202 is in the big shop in Meiningen, Germany--mentioned elsewhere in this thread--for boiler repair. A Verein member has posted a nice series of photos showing those repairs. Here's the URL:

https://picasaweb.google.com/1013850347 ... osWHaesler

A couple of captions have the word Flicken = patch.

The Meiningen works are owned by the Deutsche Bahn AG, which is the current incarnation of the German national railway system. AG means share-issuing company, but according to Wikipedia, all the shares of the Deutsche Bahn AG are currently owned by the German national government.

There are plusses to operating steam locomotive excursions on the railway systems of Switzerland, Germany etc., but a minus is having to conform to system rules. For example, the Verein is currently wrestling with the problem of how to equip their locomotive with train control equipment the Swiss national railways have now made mandatory for any locomotive operating on the system.