Thanks to all for the replies regarding Koppel and Jubilee track. I've
found some interesting historical info about small gauge mine railway
equipment through the Gn15 website, including a bibliography that
mentions an Orenstein & Koppel catalog. O&K has a website in English,
too, but the logo
At 07:54 PM 10/4/04 -0700, Steve Shyvers wrote:
Does anyone have any additional info about Koppel? If it was a German
company could "Jubilee track" been a patriotically-named euphemism for the
same product for use on the Western front?
Prefab sectional narrow gauge track was originally developed
Hi Steve.
Koppel, or Orenstein & Koppel were well known German loco builders. They
built hundreds, possibly thousands of locos. They were builders of many of
the German army "Feldbahn" military railway locos used from the 1880s
through to after WW1.They bult many industrial steamers and I thin
further to the above theme.
Orenstein & Koppel are still in existence in Germany and manufacture machinery
for civil engineering mainly. I am sure that they would supply any
information on their history and present products. Their trade mark
is the O K inside a horizontal diamond. You will have p
Some weeks back I posted a photo link about sectional track in use at a
coal fueling depot in 1918 Tahiti. Susan P. thought it might be WWI
surplus "Jubilee" track.
I just received the latest Narrow Gauge and Shortline Gazette issue and
in Bob Brown's column he has photos of a Koppel Portable T
