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FERRO-TRAIN : A STLB DIESEL

Six of theses engines, VL 11 to 16, were built between 1965 and 1967 for the Steiermärkische Landesbahnen StLB, an Austrian private railway, by ÖMAG and Brown-Boveri to replace the last surviving steam locomotives. They weigh 31 metric tons, have a length of 9.80m and can run at 50 kp/h. Originally fitted with a 265kW MAN diesel motor, some (such as VL 12, 13 and 16) were re-motorized with a 390kW MTU unit in the 2000s. These engines are of the diesel-electric type, and as buit they featured a boiler for steam-heating the passenger trains. They are fitted with automatic air brakes for both

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