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First of
all, I'd like to write, how to I become to idea to
built a garden railway. Well, as long as I remember myself,
interest of railways was always there and with my good friend
support and advice, I start to build a garden railway.
This friend of mine also have garden railway, but his is
different scale. His scale is 1/17,5 and model
of broad gauge railway. It is good to have your own
railway, where you are engineer, stationmaster, railway
guard, track master etc.
I
hesitated some time, what kind locomotive to build. And I
decided, to make locomotive, what was the
1st Estonian built locomotive in narrow gauge (750
mm) railway by local enterpriser Franz Krull
ltd. And it was class Sk. Those locomotives constructed in 1931 - 1940
16 units. 1st Sk
made in April 1931 and wear class number
Sk-151. 1st batch of locomotives were
built 10 units. Last locomotive of 1st batch
was Sk-150
and released December 1931. 2nd batch were built in 1935 and 3
units and last 3rd batch were built in 1940 and also 3 units,
but then was not Estonia free country anymore, Estonia become
a part of USSR. This kind of variation also had some
effect in local locomotive industry. Last 3 locomotives wear
sign "Red
Krull".
You can watch steam locomotive technical
particulars
here. I choose out all of those
locomotives Sk-155.
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