Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Not quite as bad as first reported, only 20% of the preserved stock was destroyed, this was the part of the national collection which was stored outside the main museum site. However the only surviving Baureihe 23, the last steam loco series built in Germany, is damaged beyond repair. The heat of the fire was so intense that several diesel locomotives literally exploded. Douglas Peter Dzwig wrote: > 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 >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >