Chrzanów
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Chrzanów is a town in southern Poland with 35,651 inhabitants as of December 2021. It is situated in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship and is the seat of Chrzanów County.
Aerial view of the Market Square
Grave of Elia Marchetti, soldier of the Garibaldi Legion, who died from wounds suffered in the 1863 battle of Krzykawka
Chrzanów's Market Square, c. 1910
A group of Jews being led toward a railway station under German occupation
Fablok
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Fablok is a Polish manufacturer of locomotives, based in Chrzanów. Until 1947 the official name was First Factory of Locomotives in Poland Ltd., Fablok being a widely used syllabic abbreviation of Fab
Chrzanów
…Voivodeship) in the Second Polish Republic. In the interwar years further industrialization of the town followed. In the 1920s Stella ceramic works and Fablok, the First Locomotive Factory in Poland, were founded. Many residents found employment there. The interwar years was the period of dynamic urbanization…
Fablok SM42-610 locomotive
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Steam locomotive 52.855, built in 1944 by the Oberschlesische Lokomotivwerke Krenau
Group photo of Fablok employees celebrating the production of Indian locomotive class WP #5000, in 1959.