Class Ol49 was an ordinary passenger 2-6-2 steam engine designed in 1949 and used in Poland by PKP. A total of 116 were built between 1951 and 1954, 112 for the PKP and four for export to North Korea, by Fablok in Chrzanów. No. 15 is now part of the railway Heritage Park, which is located next to the train station in Pyskowice. It is based on a complex of buildings as a roundhouse and for wagons. The Heritage Park was founded in 1998. The Society aims, on the basis of an abandoned depot Pyskowice, to show the history and development of the Silesian rail industry that was shaped by a century and a half ago. |