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The group's rolling stock
Home station Lengerich (Westf.)

 

Diesel locomotive Köf 4941
Standard small loco - class II

 

In 1930, the first orders for the procurement of small locomotives of performance class II were placed by the Deutsche Reichsbahn (DRG). A considerable savings potential had been recognized that a small locomotive has compared to a steam shunting locomotive due to lower costs for operating materials, maintenance and personnel costs. In addition, a small locomotive had to be operated by an appropriately instructed shunter. The task for the small locomotives was light shunting service in passenger and freight yards. However, heavy duty was still reserved for steam locomotives.

 

 

More than 2000 small locomotives of performance class II were built by various mechanical engineering companies in Germany. The first standard small locomotives were put into service in 1933. At almost every major station there was often at least one small locomotive.

 

 

Our locomotive was put into service in 1938 as Kö 4941 by the Deutsche Reichsbahn. Its first home directorate was the Reichsbahndirektion Oppeln in Upper Silesia, in today's Poland.
 

She "survived" the 2nd World War and made it to the west of Germany. After the war, she found herself at BW Offenburg. Later homes were in Osnabrück, in Rheine and in Münster (Westphalia).

 

 

In 1958 it received a Voith turbo gearbox from the Deutsche Bundesbahn in the AW Leverkusen-Opladen and was renumbered Köf 4941. With the introduction of computer-readable locomotive numbers, it was assigned the EDP operating number 323 024-0. On 7 November 1977 the z-position took place and finally the decommissioning on 29 December 1977. This ended her service with the Deutsche Bundesbahn. Her last home BW was Münster (Westphalia).

 

 

The small locomotive was then taken over by the mechanical engineering company Balcke-Dürr AG in Neubeckum. As works locomotive 1 with now sulphur-yellow superstructures and black frame, it was in service here until the end of 2008. A striking change was the oversized buffer plates at the rear of the locomotive, which were necessary due to the narrow track radii on the factory premises. After the termination of the DB siding, the small locomotive became unemployed. Since autumn 2021, Balcke-Dürr has ceased production in Neubeckum.

 

 

In February 2009, the locomotive arrived in Lengerich with the Schumacher forwarding company in our inventory. We can now present a small locomotive in the pre-war version with an open driver's cab as well as a new locomotive from 1960 (Köf 6642). It is planned to refurbish the Köf 4941 in its last condition at the Deutsche Bundesbahn in the foreseeable future.


Type

 Köf II (Kö)

 Manufacturer  Berliner Maschinenbau AG
 Fabrication N°  10805
 Year  1938
 Lenght over buffers  6.450 mm
 Total weight  17,0 t
 Power  65 PS
 Power transmission  Hydraulisch / Kette
 Fuel supply  150 l
 Max speed  30 km/h
 Last company number  323 024-0
 Status  in refurbishment


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