Liliput L141477 H0e Steam locomotive U U40 Murtal Rail of STLB

The U series was originally a narrow-gauge steam locomotive of the k.k. Austrian State Railways (KStB) for 760 mm gauge. It is one of the most built narrow-gauge locomotives in Europe. The locomotives proved so good that they were procured by almost all operators of narrow-gauge railway lines in Austria in large quantities and built by several locomotive factories. The last copy of the U series was only built for the STLB in 1922, when more modern locomotive types had long existed. Those locomotives of the U series, which became the property of the Austrian Federal Railways until after the Second World War, were given the series designation 298 with double digit numbers from 1953 onwards. Due to their large number of units, many machines of this type are still in operation at museum and tourist railways. Some specimens were also erected as locomotive monuments.

The U 43 of the Murtal Rail is a locomotive that has always been owned by the STLB. From the very beginning, they traveled on the "Murtalbahn Unzmarkt – Mauterndorf", as the train was called, after it was no longer run through the k.k. State railways, but they were administered by the Styria National Railways. Later on, the train was also called the "Gaussian railway" for a while. After the First World War, the locomotive had to be handed over to the Bosnian state railways in 1914, but returned to the Murtal railway in 1918. After the war the machine (especially during the downhill run) was partially fired with wood or even peat – but it has survived all the adversity to this day!

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