Orenstein & Koppel's small, but mighty locomotives! 

Starting the video with a picture of a narrow gauge mallet engine. Once again impressive.

This channel is criminally underrated

If I remember correctly, a few O&K 0-4-0s even made their way to America. Four eventually ended up working at a theme park called Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri.

I had the privilege of operating a 1936 O & K 0-4-0 Well Tank locomotive for a number of years. I was so pleased to see this video.

We in indonesia(mostly in java) have a lot of O&K(and other companies) engines working in the sugarcane mill(pabrik gula) most of our O&K are WAY bigger most are 0-8-0, 0-10-0 and many mallet ones and one in olny jackshaft 0-8-0 name "salak" in rejosari mill They work until the 2000s(2018) But majority of the mill either closed or switch to lorries during 2010s Many mill still keep in storage And just few that still have working ones, tho most of them are for charter trains but theres 1 mill that still use them for shunting the canes(pagotan) they convert they normal O&K 0-10-0 to a fireless loco So they still running to this day during harvest season

Here in Hungary we have the Krauss No4713, 0-6-0 wheelarrangement Feldbahnlok, called Triglav. It was made in 1902 and now after years of being statue and then years of restoration its alive again, hauling tourist trains here in Hungary at the Herritage Forestry Railway Kemence (Kemencei Erdei Múzeumvasút). Its the only working 600mm gauge "Feldbahnlok" in Hungary.

Another wonderful video and beautiful renders! You're doing amazing work!

Theres two 5' 3" gauge O&K 0-4-0T's preserved in Ireland. Very interesting company. :D

In 2015 there was a new steam locomotive built in Kolín, Czech republic which was basically replica of O&K three axle model (with some of the adjusments to modern safety norms).

I love theses little guys, I've seen one in Florida i believe on a private railway

Always reminds me of LGB's model locomotives, even though the venerable Stainz 0-4-0 is a different loco to these O&K Feldbahn engines.

I think they're adorable machines

One O&K loco (an 0-4-0 which by that time anyway was 3' gauge) made it to the Orkney Islands during WWII, used in the construction of the Churchill Barriers. There are numerous photos of it on the island of Burray, engaged in construction activities on the 4th barrier. I would love to know the story of just how a German locomotive found itself on that side of the hostilities and in such a bizarre and remote location. Presumably it is an odd and convoluted story.... Also, excellent video as ever. :)

Im very happy you made a video about these lil guys. Feldbahn´s are so interesting, which is why i plan making a model Feldbahn in H0e. Thank you for the history session and inspiration. :)

We have several of these in the UK. For example, three are at the Leighton Buzzard Light Railway in Bedfordshire, while another couple have ended up at the Statfold Barn Railway in Staffordshire. It's interesting because we have/had many railways in the 2ft gauge range here in Britain. One look alone at several heritage railways in Wales shows this: The Ffestiniog Railway, both Welsh Highland Railways and the Llanberis Lake Railway all have a gauge of 1ft 11 1/2in (597mm). The Bala Lake Railway has a gauge of 1ft 11 5/8in (600mm) The Brecon Mountain Railway and the Vale of Rheidol Railway meanwhile are gauged at 1ft 11 3/4in (603mm) There are and were plenty more of these 2ft gauge type lines in the rest of the UK, including at the actual 2ft gauge (610mm). For larger gauges, we have a couple of 2ft 3in (686mm) gauge lines currently operating: the Talyllyn Railway and the Corris Railway The Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway runs to a gauge of 2ft 6in (762mm) And the Snowdon Mountain Railway has a gauge of 2ft 7 1/2in (800mm) In Britain we had a lot of lines but there was a bit of a boom and bust period; a lot closed down in the 1930s, certainly to passengers if not entirely. Some, such as the Ffestiniog and WLLR, were reopened in the '50s and 60s as heritage railways. Indeed, the Talyllyn was the very first preserved railway in the world, reopening in 1951. While the Welsh narrow gauge railways are probably the best-known, there are two English narrow gauge lines that I strongly recommend looking up: One of them is the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway. Located in Devon, this 1ft 11 1/2in gauge line ran from 1898-1935, connecting the towns of Barnstaple and Lynton (along with the nearby village of Lynmouth, located at the bottom of the hill Lynton's on). A small section of it has been preserved at Woody Bay, one of the intermediate stations, reopening in 2004, and runs for around a mile right now, but they are looking to extend. The other one is the Leek and Manifold Railway. Located in Saffordshire, this 2ft 6in gauge line ran from 1904 to 1934 and is now a cycle path. There's also a long defunct line in Scotland that I love: the Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway. This 2ft 3in gauge line was located on the Kintyre Peninsular and ran from 1876-1932. There were also a narrow gauge line on the Island of Jersey in the Channel Islands: The Jersey Railway, which opened in 1870 as a standard gauge line, was converted to narrow gauge in 1888 and closed in 1936 (The other railway on the island, the Jersey Eastern Railway, was standard gauge throughout its lifetime from 1873-1929). When the line was converted it was converted to one of my favourite narrow gauges (mostly because I'm pretty fond of Australian railways): 3ft 6in (1067mm). We don't have many railways to this gauge in the UK: I can only think of two currently running: the Snaefell Mountain Railway on the Isle of Man and the Great Orme Tramway in, guess where, Wales! But if you want a haven of narrow gauge railways in the UK there's only really one place to go: the Isle of Man. It has a network of predominantly 3ft (914mm) gauge railways: The Manx Electric Railway (3ft). A tramway which runs from the island's capital, Douglas, up the east coast to the town of Ramsey. Opened in 1893. The Snaefell Mountain Railway (3ft 6in). Also a tramway, which runs from the village of Laxey up to the summit of Snaefell Mountain. Opened in 1895. The Isle of Man Railway (3ft). A steam railway, which in its heydey from when it opened in 1873 up until the mid-1960s had lines from Douglas down south to Port Erin, westwards to Peel and from the junction at St. John's it ran northwards to Ramsey. Only the section from Douglas to Port Erin survives today. (If you're wondering about my use of imperial measurements for the track gauges, in the UK we use both metric and imperial measurements for many things; e.g. while driving we use miles per hour and yards, while when measuring smaller distances we tend to use centimetres and metres (though sometimes, as here, we still use feet and inches). It can be quite confusing, even to us natives! It's a mixture of what's become (or stayed) the conventional unit to measure with for a given function (e.g. grams and kilograms) and personal preference (some people still like to use ounces and pounds when cooking)! Another example: our milk bottles often have their volumes printed on them in both metric (millilitres/litres) and imperial units (pints), while a jar of jam or marmalade is measured at 454 grams (a pound in the old imperial measurements)! One other thing: we don't tend to use the centilitre measurement (though I think I have seen it pop up occasionally), so a typical shop-bought bottle of water will be shown as having 500ml, rather than 50cl. That got rather off-topic, but I think it's quite fascinating how we've mixed everything together. I don't know if any other countries do the same!)

9:03 don't worry about the script the video was awesome❤

Awesome video thanks for making it

There were 3 o&k locomotives in New Zealand and they were owned by the public works department and none were scrapped one is in running order and one is on a play ground and one is long since lost in the bush

7:08 Duplex locomotives actually only had one frame, they weren’t articulated.

Ein tolles Video und super Modelle🤩👌

great video!

Have yoiu ever been to the Frankfurter Feldbahnmuseum they have a running B’Bn4vt by O & K

To put it simply again: Love it

2:54 I wonder why do these look like Douglas from the Tallylyn Railway...

Docela se podobají rakouské řadě R IIIc. V ČR na Mladějově jezdí dvě lokomotivy se závěsným tenderem. Tendr spočívá na lokomotivě a na své nápravě, trvale spojeno v jeden stroj. Parní provoz tam vydržel až do 90 let, pak přešel na muzeální provoz.

nice

Well I'll be damned, my request was answered. Great video. To me, those little German field locos are like the mascot of railways as a whole. When i think locomotive, that's what pops into mind.

Please make a history video about the narrow gauge Deutz diesel locomotives

I have finally learnt something about Orenstein & Koppel. HF 110 perhaps?

There're plenty of them in Thailand, and many of them are 0-4-0T, but some are 0-8-0TT (Tender) and even one off 2-4-0. (tender)

On the topic of narrow(er) gauge locos, the BR 99 with all it's variants could also be an interesting video. This also is a great video!

Glory to O&K and their tiny powerhouses

Eiiiiine...

toll, von den kleinen malletloks wusste ich selbst nicht. leider sind funktionierende Dampfloks bei feldbahnvereinen selten.

Wait. These are 3D models you made in Blender? I thought they where real model trains!

I have a reprint of the O&K Catalogue. I tried ordering a loco to no avail. ;-)

Very interesting stuff. O&K was decently common up in Denmark where Im from, even if theyre not the most prevalent in preservation. But there is a O&K 0-6-0 40hp locomotive, just like your model, in operational order on the 5km long Hedelands Veteranjernbane just west of Copenhagen. Running on 700mm gauge, it was built in 1921 and spent its entire pre-heritage life until 1967 running in Danish peat bogs where it was extracted for fuel and mulch. As such the locomotive has also been named "Vildmose" and is pretty highly adored here as one of Denmarks most beautiful steam locomotives. As for the line its running on, the locomotive is actually a little weak. The other main operating steam locomotive on the line is a Henschell 0-8-0 built for sugar beet transportation capable of 80hp, or twice that of the O&K. And another narrow gauge line in the country also on 700mm gauge has an O&K thats an 0-8-0 too and also for sugar beet transportation, but which has a whopping 125hp. Though that loocmotive hasnt been in running order for over a decade sadly.

OO9 scale?!?! Those locomotives should be in OO9 scale.

Amazing video!! I have always found feldbahns to be really interesting :D

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