Arnold Jung Lokomotivfabrik

Overview of the remaining factory premises

Factory plate on a steam locomotive

Factory plate on Mallet locomotive 99 5902 of the HSB

Factory plate 'Arnold Jung Locomotivfabrik' from 'Graf Schwerin-Löwitz' No. 1261

The Arnold Jung Lokomotivfabrik (Arnold Jung Locomotive Works) was a locomotive manufacturer, in particular of Feldbahn locomotives, in Kirchen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany.

History

The firm was founded on 13 February 1885 as Jung & Staimer OHG by Arnold Jung and Christian Staimer. On 3 September 1885 the first locomotive was delivered. In 1913 the company was renamed Arnold Jung Lokomotivfabrik GmbH, Jungenthal. In 1976 locomotive production was stopped in favour of other products such as machine tools, transporters, armour plating, cranes and bridgelayers.

Jung built more than 12,000 locomotives. In the 1950s it built 51 DB Class 23 2-6-2 locomotives, including in 1959, number 23 105, the last new steam locomotive supplied to the Deutsche Bundesbahn. Jung also made boilers for other uses such as steam rollers.

By the 1950s Jung was also building diesel locomotives, such as the 42 standard gauge Egyptian Republic Railways 4211 class shunters in 1953–56.^[1]

Production ceased on 30 September 1993 and the factory closed, but the firm continues to exist as Jungenthal Systemtechnik GmbH.

Preserved Locomotives

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Built	Works number	Wheel arrangement	Origin	Id	Current Location	Notes	Photograph
1890s	129	0-4-0T	Reykjavík Harbour Railway		Árbær Museum	Pionér is in a shed at the museum - rebuilt 1910 and given a new no.: 1591[2]
1890s	130	0-4-0T	Reykjavík Harbour Railway		Reykjavík Harbour	Minør is on a very small section of track in Reykjavík Harbour[2]
1908	1261	0-6-2 WT	Mecklenburgisch-Vorpommersche Schmalspurbahn (MPSB) Nr. 5 / Deutschen Reichsbahn (DR) Nr. 99 3353	Graf Schwerin-Löwitz	Pont-y-Pant railway station	The Brecon Mountain Railway runs from Pant, near Merthyr Tydfil.
1926	3534	0-8-2t (D1'h2-t)	SHS RU 8	JDŽ 83-052	Šarganska osmica
1931	3872	0-6-0WT	Used in sugar plantations in the Cameroons.	No 2, KATIE	Bredgar and Wormshill Light Railway
1939	8692			41 303 41 1303-1 Hei Na Ganzlin	Röbel/Müritz	Rekolok, only parts of the locomotive remain
1940	9318			41 360 042 360-8	Dampflok-Tradition Oberhausen	Oil-fired
1941	9322			41 364 042 364-0	Augsburg Railway Park, Augsburg	Oil-fired, new-type boiler '61, Museum locomotive
1942	9933	0-4-0T			Merrimac (town), Wisconsin	Derelict
1944	10175	2-8-2T (1'D1')	Rhein-Sieg Eisenbahn (RSE)	53	Bröl Valley Railway
1952	11474	2-6-2 (1'C1')		23 019 023 019-3	DDM	Museum locomotive
1952	11969	2-6-2 (1'C1')		23 029 023 029-2	Ostalbkreis	Aalen trade school centre, Monument
1955	12081	2-8-2	Hedjaz Jordan Railway	51	Hedjaz Jordan Railway
1959	13113	2-6-2 (1'C1')	DB AG	23 105 023 105-0	South German Railway Museum (SEH)	Last steam engine delivered to the DB; damaged in the major fire on 17 October 2005, on loan for 10 years to SEH for cosmetic restoration

Gallery

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  Arnold Jung Locomotive from 1905 of the Otavi Mining and Railway Company in Tsumeb, Namibia

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  Jung Steam locomotive

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  Jung Diesel locomotive

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  Jung fireless

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  Feldbahn locomotive built by the Arnold Jung Lokomotivfabrik

There is a 5025 steam machine in the "Museo Ferroviario de Santiago de Chile". This machine served in the railway that existed between the Chilean southern towns "Los Sauces" and "Capitan Pastene" (35 km). This railway was begun to be built in 1904 and in 1978 was abandoned.

References

1. Hughes, Hugh (1981). Middle East Railways. Harrow: Continental Railway Circle. ISBN 0-9503469-7-7.
2. Waite, James The International Steam Pages -Icelandic Steam Survivors, (Rob Dickinson)

External links

• Description of the firm of Jung at www.werkbahn.de
• There is a relevant English-language forum at Railways of Germany
• 279 Surviving Arnold Jung Locomotives