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A big and well known factory of paper-towels is located in Neuß. For internal purposes it owns two small shunters. Meanwhile an UNIMOG is used, but the locos are still parked at the factory. AFAIK the vehicles should be sold if someone is interested. Here the shunter built by Gmeinder (sorry, I was unable to decipher the production-plate over a distance of 10 meters from the fence) on 22nd of March 2008. Photo ©Arnim v. Herff

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A big and well known factory of paper-towels is located in Neuß. For internal purposes it owns two small shunters. Meanwhile an UNIMOG is used, but the locos are still parked at the factory. AFAIK the vehicles should be sold if someone is interested. Here the shunter built by Maschinenfabrik Esslingen in 1961 with fabrication-no. 5302 on 22nd of March 2008. Fabrication-no. 5316 was the last loco built by ME in 1966, a cog-wheel steamer for Indonesia (road-no. E 10 60) - BTW the last built steamer in Germany. This Indonesian class consisted of ten locos, delivered in two series - fabrication-numbers 5306-5309 and 5311-5316 (compare: Werner Willhaus, "1966 - der letzte Dampflokneubau in Deutschland" in Eisenbahn Kurier 10/2006, Freiburg 2006, page 26 ff). So this diesel is one of the very last by Maschinenfabrik Esslingen, IF fabrication-numbers 5303-5305 and 5310 was not used for boilers or steam-rollers... Photo ©Arnim v. Herff