Bieber 0-6-0 Locomotives in Germany

Class Bieberlies (Locobase 5097)

Data from []. . (August 2002)

This Sauer river basin schmalspur near Heuchelheim bought three of these engines over a 7-year period (#1 had builder's number 17369, 2 in 1923 was 19979, and 3, delivered in 1927, had builder's number 20813.) The second one, later renumbered 60, survived until 1964 when it was taken in hand for restoration

She wasn't fully operational again until the late 1980s and she only reentered tourist service in 1992. As of 2002, she was described as a "mobile monument" on the city Plettenburg's list of historic places.

A boiler survey in 2008 revealed a great deal of corrosion and by May 2009, the question was how to raise the 35,000 Euros needed to tackle just that problem. Google helpfully translated Monika Wiegelman''s report in the 27 May 2009 Westfaelische Rundschau, which outlined the difficulties in removing all 164 tubes. Wiegelman ended her account with the hope (usually futile but familiar to all steam locomotive restorers) that the operation wouldn't uncover even more damage.

Andreas Wolf later reported in the WestDeutsche Allgemein Zeitung of 25 November 2011 that the new boiler was ready to be reunited with "Lizzie's" other parts. The boiler had gone to MaLoWa fabricators in Klostermansfeld in Saxony-Anhalt just over a year earlier and seen 162 tubes replaced. She was reassembled at the WEM's workshops and reentered service on 7 October 2012.