k.u.k Heeresbahn 0-6-0 Locomotives in Austria

Class R IIIc (Locobase 6386)

Data from [] and [], bothaccessed 28 November 2004. See also, with Translate.Google's help,the Ciernohronská Peleznica (Cierny Hron Forestry Railway) website at [], last accessed 28 September 2022. Works numbers were 602-618, 622, 624, 644-646 in 1918. (NB works numbers began at 600.)

k.u.k Heeresbahn is a simplified title for Austor-Hungarian Verkehrstruppenbrigade, for which an English translation of "Transportation Brigade" suggests their role. These small tank engines occupied one subclass of several. '

The CZZ website gives a history of the 625, which it notes never actually went into service. Instead, it disappeared from view for almost 70 years. in 1984, workers about to demolish an old barn on the original landowner's site opened the building's door and discovered the 625 inside.

Inquiries resulted in an open-air narrow-gauge railway accepting its delivery by truck. Lack of information about how the 625 had been used became apparent in 1990 when the museum decided to restore it and discovered a 2 mm crack in the copper firebox. Finding it irreparable, the restorers contracted for a steel firebox. After its installation and other work, the locomotive was ready for service in April 1993.

The little engine immediately earned its keep hauling passengers, making photo runs, and generally being easy to maintain. But its boiler ticket ran out in 2003. Lack of funds left it on the side track for years, but the engine eventually returned to duty in 2009.