The Ones That Got Away!


Here you can share my disappointment, or even have a quite laugh. I always try to get some record of BR52s, but sometimes the results aren't so good!
You won't be able to enlarge these, but they aren't worth the effort anyway. So here are the ones that got away and they are best viewed full screen.

Two other museum sites are available, Basdorf (now closed) and Tuttlingen. Both sites had poor records and many locos which I failed to identify, If you can help with either, look at Basdorf or Tuttlingen I have left both sets of photos as records of my early visit, but have revisted Tuttlingen and most of its 52s are shown individually. Basdorf closed, the collection moved to Altes Lager at Juterbog and I caught up with them on their next move to Falkenburg Elster. Most of the 52s appear seperately elsewhere.



In working order, 52 8106-8, was seperated from its tender to fit into the former Bw Treysa. (rebuilt in 64 from 52 6159 Schwarzkopf/BMAG 12600 of 1943)
22 Sep 2003

locked doors and spiders' webs!

under restoration 52 8047 in the former Bw Nossen
15 Sept 2000

inside, no space to get an angle! But see P105 of Skasa's book showing 8047's boiler in use as Nordhausen Heating Plant!

operational 52 8168 (ex 52 3574 Krauss Maffei 16546/1943)inside the Bayerisches Eisenbahn Museum, Nordlingen. Between "Loci" and 50 778.
1 Sept 1993.

inside, no space to get an angle!

Operational 52 1423 inside Museum Bw Hermeskeil in April 1994. Unrebuilt (Maschinen Fabrik Esslingen 4609 of 1943)

Too little light and too little space inside, too little loco outside

52 6666 (Skoda 1492/1943) at Bw Schoneweide with Dampflokfreunde Berlin - defective boiler too expensive to repair.
8 Sept 2000

inside, part blocked by frame!

52 8064-9 (ex 52 6011 BMAG 12652/1943)) at Klein Mahler near Salzgitter. The Loco was amongst many others of the Ev41.096 collection in the station yard.- add date

noon time spring sunshine and lack of space.

partially cut up Ty42 at Wolstyn in the goods yard - 7 Sept 2000
identified by Jacek Raczowski as Ty42 87 (Krenau/Chrzanow 1564/1945)

no visible number, certainly not on the smokebox! And all cut up and gone twelve months later in 2001.

OGEG's base at Amplfwang housed this non-operational 52.80 under the one time silo building. 2Sep 2000

no plates, no details except on the buffer beam. It may be 52 8003 ex Bw Dresden.

OGEG Amplfwang under their silo building. non operational 52 3316 (Jung 11327/1944)- 2 Sept 2000

no space for a full length shot!

VSM (NL) at their Beekberger base, with 52 8053 (ex 52 2551 Henschel 27419/1943) and behind it 52 8139 (ex 52 3209 Jung 11220/43), both in running order - 25 August 2000

lots of light, but no space

VSM (NL) again with 52 532 another working 52 - 25 August 2000

no space for a full length shot!

OGEG 52 8186 inside their building at Linz Works under overhaul. (ex 52 632, rebuilt in 1967. Schichau 4180 of 1944) 1 Sept 2000

not even with flash

OGEG's base inside OBB's Linz Works held 52 8196 under restoration. (rebuilt in 1967 from 52 5374 Krenau/Chraznow 1407 of June 1944) 1 Sep 2000

no plates, no details except on the buffer beam and no space

DEW depot at Rinteln Nord held 52 8037 under restoration. (rebuilt in 1961 from 52 712 Henschel 27905 1944) 19 Aug 2001

no plates, no details, no light, and all locked up!

PKP Ty2 223 (ex 52 2127 Henschel 26883 of 1943)
1 Sep 2000

didn't have my axe to clear the trees at Jaworzyna Slaska.

In working order, PKP Ty42 1, the first "Polish" 52 (Krenau/Chrzanow (Fablok) 1501 of 1945) sticks out the depot at Jarowzyna Slaska
29 Aug 2001

no chance for an inside shot


IF you can help me to identify any of those without numbers, please get in touch.
YewTreeFm@aol.com

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