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Subject: [Leica] PAW 43 - Engineers/sad day for German Steam
From: pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig)
Date: Wed Oct 19 10:58:08 2005
References: <43565C76.2020003@summaventures.com> <43567D71.3070500@gmx.de>

Douglas Sharp wrote:

> Nice shed shot  Peter,
> did you hear about the catastrophe at the German National Railway Museum 
> in N?rnberg?
> A terrible fire, and the subsequent collapse of the roof, destroyed 
> virtually the whole collection of steam, diesel and electric exhibits 
> including a working replica of "Adler"
> the first steam train to run in Germany (the original was built by 
> Robert Stephenson in Newcastle), it's still a matter of seeing what can 
> be salvaged but hopes are not particularly high.
> The large exhibits made up around 95% of preserved main-line steam 
> traction  in Germany.
> Douglas
> 
> 
> Peter Dzwig wrote:
> 
>> Leica IIIf 3.5cm Summaron f8 BW400CN
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album164/Engineers20051010
>>
>> Thanks for looking. Comments are always welcomed,
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Peter Dzwig
>>
>>
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Thanks Douglas.

No I hadn't. Sounds disastrous. I guess it depends on how heavy the roof was 
and 
where it actually fell. I guess that most would survive a lot of heat, let's 
hope that it did.

Peter


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