Like 1:1 Marklin models, these two items on display, unknown location or date:

http://abpr.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi?j ... anColl.jpg

Are these at a museum somewhere? Do any of the DB G8 Class 55 0-8-0s still exist? I remember seeing a few of them at Neuss, south of Dusseldorf in the early 1970s. They were used in other European countries as well.

Thanks, Bob. Looks like at least four of the DB 55 Class (Austrian G8 class) 0-8-0s still exist; 55.3528 is preserved at the Speyer Technical Museum.


Without knowing the number on the steam crane; I don't know if it has been preserved or not. Several examples have:

http://www.eisenbahndienstfahrzeuge.de/ ... ran056.htm

It is very difficult to document steam railroad cranes overseas; it is very much a hit-and-miss affair.

-James Hefner
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That was taken at the Auto & Technik Museum at Sinsheim in Germany, about an hour south of the Frankfurt airport. There is a small industrial switcher hanging from the boom of the crane. Not sure if this is still the way these things are exhibited as I was last there in the late 1980s. The web site for them is athttp://www.technik-museum.de/uk/sinsheim

That makes sense; the crane is "30 80 974 0 035-9"; it was built by Krupp in 1949.

-James Hefner
Hebrews 10:20a

Surviving World Steam Project