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10-18-2005, 10:38 PM
http://www.br-online.de/bayern-heute/artikel/0510/18-brand-nuernberg/index.xml
Translated in full from German. Hopefully this is not a problem with regard to copy right limitations.
Large fire in traffic museum.
In a large fire outside the Nurnberger Verkersmuseum last monday night priceless pieces of rail history have been destroyed. As yet the reason for the fire in the roundhouse is unknown. At the time of the fire the roundhouse had 24 historical locomotives in it. The financial damage goes into tens of millions of euros.
http://www.br-online.de/bayern-heute/artikel/0510/18-brand-nuernberg/foto/brand250-dpa.jpg
The police reported to the press that the Roundhouse started to burn at around 20:00. The fire started in a roughly 100 year old wooden roundhouse, used by the Deutsche Bahn AG Austellungsstucke (German Railways museum).
Possible cause, roof work
The cause of the fire is as yet unknown. Because there is an immediate risk of the building collapsing investigators have not been able to do their work. Police did reported that roof works where taking place on monday. The roof was given a new tar treatment. If this actually caused the fire can not be confirmed. Wednesday the investigation started.
http://www.br-online.de/bayern-heute/artikel/0510/18-brand-nuernberg/foto/lok.jpg
Damage in double digits millions
It is possible that part of the locomotives where not in the museum at the time of the fire, because of an exhibit last friday. If so the damage might be light. Preliminary assesments put the damage at between 20 and 40 million euros. (~ 24-48 million USD)
24 historic locs in fire
Fortunately noone got hurt in the fire, but the fire damage is enourmous. 24 Historic locomotives and carriages where burned out. This includes a number of operating steam locomotives from the 30s and 40s. In the fire roughlu a fifth of the museums collection is damaged/destroyed, says museum director Jürgen Franzke.
Complete train series destroyed
Particularly hard felt is the loss of the last steam locomotive build for the Bundesbahn. The locomotive was build in 1959 as part of Baureihe 23. The museum locomotive was the last copy remaining. Last of a kind was also Baureihe 45 from 1941, at the time the largest cargo locomotive in the world. An metro (U-bahn) vehicle from Berlin 1913 was also destroyed.
http://www.br-online.de/bayern-heute/artikel/0510/18-brand-nuernberg/foto/adler.jpg
"Adler"-locomotive may be salvagable
The replica of the "Adler" (the Eagle, first train in the Germany), a train that drove between Nürnberg and Fürth in 1835, might be repaired. However, said Peter Plochmann (Technical director of the museum) to the Bayerischen Rundfunk, it looks like 3 or 4 of the carriages where burned down to the axles. But at least the locomotive can probably be saved because it is made completley of metal and therefor did not suffer as much as the others.
Rebuilding
According to Franzke the museum will try to restore at least a part of the collection to original state. "The plans are there and the DB (Deutsche Bahn, national railways) have the capabilty to do so. It is not yet clear how much the insurance will cover the damage.
More pictures can be seen on this German forum:
http://www.v160.de/phorum5/read.php?3,12442,12442#msg-12442
Translated in full from German. Hopefully this is not a problem with regard to copy right limitations.
Large fire in traffic museum.
In a large fire outside the Nurnberger Verkersmuseum last monday night priceless pieces of rail history have been destroyed. As yet the reason for the fire in the roundhouse is unknown. At the time of the fire the roundhouse had 24 historical locomotives in it. The financial damage goes into tens of millions of euros.
http://www.br-online.de/bayern-heute/artikel/0510/18-brand-nuernberg/foto/brand250-dpa.jpg
The police reported to the press that the Roundhouse started to burn at around 20:00. The fire started in a roughly 100 year old wooden roundhouse, used by the Deutsche Bahn AG Austellungsstucke (German Railways museum).
Possible cause, roof work
The cause of the fire is as yet unknown. Because there is an immediate risk of the building collapsing investigators have not been able to do their work. Police did reported that roof works where taking place on monday. The roof was given a new tar treatment. If this actually caused the fire can not be confirmed. Wednesday the investigation started.
http://www.br-online.de/bayern-heute/artikel/0510/18-brand-nuernberg/foto/lok.jpg
Damage in double digits millions
It is possible that part of the locomotives where not in the museum at the time of the fire, because of an exhibit last friday. If so the damage might be light. Preliminary assesments put the damage at between 20 and 40 million euros. (~ 24-48 million USD)
24 historic locs in fire
Fortunately noone got hurt in the fire, but the fire damage is enourmous. 24 Historic locomotives and carriages where burned out. This includes a number of operating steam locomotives from the 30s and 40s. In the fire roughlu a fifth of the museums collection is damaged/destroyed, says museum director Jürgen Franzke.
Complete train series destroyed
Particularly hard felt is the loss of the last steam locomotive build for the Bundesbahn. The locomotive was build in 1959 as part of Baureihe 23. The museum locomotive was the last copy remaining. Last of a kind was also Baureihe 45 from 1941, at the time the largest cargo locomotive in the world. An metro (U-bahn) vehicle from Berlin 1913 was also destroyed.
http://www.br-online.de/bayern-heute/artikel/0510/18-brand-nuernberg/foto/adler.jpg
"Adler"-locomotive may be salvagable
The replica of the "Adler" (the Eagle, first train in the Germany), a train that drove between Nürnberg and Fürth in 1835, might be repaired. However, said Peter Plochmann (Technical director of the museum) to the Bayerischen Rundfunk, it looks like 3 or 4 of the carriages where burned down to the axles. But at least the locomotive can probably be saved because it is made completley of metal and therefor did not suffer as much as the others.
Rebuilding
According to Franzke the museum will try to restore at least a part of the collection to original state. "The plans are there and the DB (Deutsche Bahn, national railways) have the capabilty to do so. It is not yet clear how much the insurance will cover the damage.
More pictures can be seen on this German forum:
http://www.v160.de/phorum5/read.php?3,12442,12442#msg-12442