Ferdinand Steck Maschinenfabrik

Ferdinand Steck Maschinenfabrik AG is a Swiss manufacturer of specialist road building and railway equipment. The company is based at Bowil in the canton of Bern.

Ferdinand Steck Maschinenfabrik
IndustrySpecialist vehicle builder
Founded1938
Headquarters
Bowil, Bern
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Switzerland
Websitesteck.ch
A diesel rack locomotive built for the Brienz-Rothorn Railway by Steck

The company was founded in 1938 at Langnau im Emmental by Ferdinand Steck, who had previously worked as a railway mechanic and a road roller driver, in order to build his new design of road roller. The company moved to Bowil in 1960. In 1975 the company diversified into building specialist railway vehicles, including diesel locomotives for rack railways, such as the Brienz Rothorn Railway, the Furka Oberalp Railway and the Berner Oberland Railway.[1]

References
  1. "History". Ferdinand Steck Maschinenfabrik AG. Retrieved 2012-11-30.


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