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DLM AG, Dampflokomotiv- und Maschinenfabrik Aktiengesellschaft, is a Swiss manufacturer of modern steam engines for railway and marine service. The company was formed in the year 2000 and is headed by Roger Waller. It was formerly the steam engine division of Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works (SLM) in Winterthur. The company is notable as being one of the few in the world which is still able to manufacture new steam locomotives.

1 Locomotives
2 History
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Locomotives

Since 1992, SLM/DLM has supplied steam locomotives to the following rack railways:

In the late 1990s, SLM rebuilt the German 2-10-0 locomotive number 52 8055 [1] using "modern steam" principles. This locomotive is now owned by DLM and is used for hauling steam excursion trains.

[edit] History

Quote from the Modern Steam Locomotive Developments website [2]

Sulzer Winpro sells Steam Business to Hug Engineering

Sulzer Winpro (former SLM) in Winterthur has sold its steam business for an undisclosed sum to Hug Engineering, a company making ceramic catalysers for diesel engines. Hug also owns a machine building company which works partly for its catalyser business, but also as a supplier for the rolling stock industry.

The steam business will form a new company called Dampflokomotiv- und Maschinenfabrik AG DLM (Steam Locomotive and Machine Works Ltd..) DLM will be headed by Roger Waller and its aim is to develop and to market modern steam locomotives and steam engines for naval purposes. Sulzer Winpro will act as a supplier to DLM and DLM will support Winpro in the finalizing of the modernized steam locomotive 52 NG 8055 as well as with possible future orders from the Lake Geneva shipping company for additional steam engines for its steam boats, which are covered by an existing contract.