Vintage Locomotive with State-Of-The-Art CIDEON Engineering

10. Juli 2009: After 22 months of planning, designing, constructing and testing, experts from CIDEON Engineering are putting the steam engine, series 9932, developed in 1932, on the right track.

Bad Doberan, 10 July 2009

About 200 years after the development of the first locomotive by the Englishman Richard Trevithick and 50 years after the last steam engine was built in Germany, a new steam engine has been built for use in regular service.

In the year 2007 the contract for the construction of the new locomotive was signed between Molli Bahn GmbH and Dampflokwerk (DLW) in Meiningen. The new (re) production was constructed in accordance with the design from the year 1932 by Orenstein & Koppel (O&K). O&K supplied 3 locomotives from the 99³² series with the rare track gauge of 900 mm for the line from Bad Doberan to Arendsee (today Kühlungsborn).

 

These locomotives were designed according to the principle of a “standardised type” and thanks to their large driving wheels they are the fastest narrow-gauge locomotives. As the engineering office in DLW Meiningen is not designed for such an extensive task, they looked for a partner and found the right one in Cideon Engineering GmbH in Bautzen.

Hundreds of drawings were gone through for this purpose and decisions were reached on the manufacturing method and the material. Approx. 50% of the drawings had to be recreated because they were no longer available, the manufacturing process had changed (riveted assemblies and castings could no longer be procured) and new materials were used.

 

The big day arrived on 10 July 2009: after approximately 22 months of planning, designing, constructing and testing, the locomotive was ceremoniously handed over in Bad Doberan.

 

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