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Engines Being Scrapped?

Discussion in 'Steam Traction' started by 69621, Apr 5, 2012.

  1. PolSteam

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    I'd forgotten that Hutnik one. Yes that must have been a Smittendorf loco, as it was an early one. He tried to build a business with Pila, but he bought worn out engines and gave them light overhauls, so they were in working order, but he sold them for top notch money. They all fell over quickly, and needed a lot of money spent on them. He also sold a lot os Slasks, and Ty2's which were tarted up rubbish too, but done via ZNTK Olesnice, who he never paid for the overhauls.
     
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    Any more info on these 2? Not got much info on them before their arrival at Spa. Also the former owner hasn't died, unless it's happened since last August as he came for a footplate ride (I was the fireman by chance) on 2944.
     
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    A few pictures of TKh2944 working in Huta Malapanew in winter of 1996, when I had a chance to drive it! It was the first and last time I had the chance, as I was always busy. Note not a steam leak anywhere!

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    Did you guys get the boiler books for both your engines? everything you need to know is in them. I was told the original owner died. Maybe you bought them from someone I don't know.
     
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    @PolSteam welcome to the forum and thanks for all the details and the pictures , more please if you have any . There are some from the CVR on here so if you happened to be in the UK and wanted to see the two engines there , they can best advise on when its running
     
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    I live in Hampshire, so I'm a fair way, away. Maybe when my car is better, and the kids are on holiday, we could make an extended day trip.

    Each loco was sent to UK with two brown covered books. One was the boiler book, and the second was the mechanical repairs book. In some books were the original invoices from Chrzanow. Poland lived on paperwork, and it was always nice to see a full set of docs.
     
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    So did the Finnish engine get scrapped, and what about the other 3 Finnish engines that were there as the 2 Finnish coaches on the line were scrapped.
     
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    Original invoice for TKh 2944.

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    Well that's nice. they nicked my alias! On other forums I'm known as Col. Gibbon, but I thought Pol Steam might be a good one for a Railway forum. my real name is John Graham, and I used to own a majority of 47324, and I still own a chunk of Ol49-12

    I worked out of Poland from 1993 to 2001, when my life changed forever, when my mother had a stroke, and I had to give up my flat in Bytom, and return home. I've only been back twice and the first time I blew my remaining savings protecting the loco's in Pyskowice from a scrap man who had moved in, shortly after I had left Poland.

    My Polish friends who normally look after the engines were scared of the guy, So, I hired a couple of the local mafia [six foot six, and built like brick S houses] to kick him out, and make sure he did not return. It may seem a bad way to handle things, but in Poland, at the time, the police were a joke.

    Since then things have moved forward in Pyskowice, and it's the first privately owned museum in Poland. They had TKp4422 working, but they now have a beautiful Ty42 and TKh in working order, plus a number of diesels.

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    welcome John Graham....if you see my 4449 thread, you'll know who I am....which not many people do now
     
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    Hi POL Steam.
    Another one who remembers you from around 1979 - 82 including a sideways move.
     
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    I remember hearing of that move....it was famous at the time
     
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    Jacking an engine across a siding to get it into a place where it could be loaded? am i thinking of the right loco here?
     
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    4F i think
     
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    yeap thats the one, were you part of the fowler group then, i remember it being at the back of the shed, but i wasnt active then, by the time i joined the loco dept it had gone,
     
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    not me....locos too complicated fro us carriage types...woodwork and paint I can do
     
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    Did you come with us to Barry to move the 4f?

    My brain is having trouble putting faces to you guys from the cryptic posts!
     
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    "Your wooden bodied coach needs us". From another coach restorer.
     
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    i can remember tommo i know he was one of you guys
     

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