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4000th locomotive built by Krauss was an E I neuere Ausführung, numbered
2084 (which in fact should have replaced the ‘4000’ plate). Built in 1899,
this locomotive was withdrawn in 1924. Source: Lokomotiv-Archiv Bayern
(see References).
Side drawing of class E I neuere Ausführung;
source: as above. Earlier engines often ran with three-axle tenders.
No. 2064 (3300/1897) Bauart Sondermann before conversion into the standard
version. Source: Lokomotiven der alten deutschen Staats- und Privatbahnen by H. Maey and
E. Born, Transpress,
1983.
An unidentified K.Bay.St.B. E I Bauart Vauclain, location and date unknown.
Source: Die Lokomotive
January 1906. |
Class
E I of Königlich Bayerischen Staatsbahn (K.Bay.Sts.B) included in fact four distinct types of freight
tender locomotives, which shared the 1-4-0 axle arrangement and ran on
saturated steam. All but two examples were built by Krauss company of Munich. First
batch comprised the prototype (2989/1894) and eleven examples (factory
numbers 3201 through 3211, delivered between 1895 and 1896). They were fitted
with single-expansion steam engines, with cylinders mounted in front of the
lead Krauss-Helmholtz truck and driving the first coupled axle. K.Bay.Sts.B. numbered them 2051 through 2062,
later they were referred to as Normalbauart ältere Ausführung (standard version, older type). Next two
examples (3212/1896 and 3300/1897, service numbers 2063 and 2064) were fitted
with Sondermann-type compound engine and hence
known as Bauart Sondermann.
This version was unsuccessful and 48 examples known as Normalbauart neuere Ausführung, delivered between 1899 and 1901, reverted
to the single-expansion engine, but with cylinders mounted behind the lead
idle axle. They were numbered 2065 through 2084, 2087 through 2099 and 2116
through 2130; 2063 and 2064 were later also rebuilt to this standard. Two
examples, 2085 and 2086, were purchased from American Baldwin company, mainly for test purposes. They featured
four-cylinder Vauclain-type compound engines (and
were referred to as Bauart Vauclain)
and bar frames, then a novelty in Germany. The latter feature was later
adopted in several designs, but Vauclain engine
found little favor, being considered complex and troublesome in maintenance. A
few locomotives of this type were withdrawn in 1918; seven went to France (ETAT) and two to Belgium (CFB). DRG reserved for them class designation 563 and
service numbers 56 301 through 309 (ältere Ausführung), 56 310 and
56 311 (former Bauart Sondermann)
and 56 312 through 353 (neuere Ausführung). None, however, was actually assigned, as
these locomotives, considered obsolescent and untypical, were all withdrawn
before 1925. Reserved numbers were finally assigned to KPEV G81s. Polish
state railways took over only one engine of the neuere Ausführung variety, former 2119 (Krauss 4453/1901), which had been
impressed into German military railways and left in Poland. It was classed
Tr101. LP does not conform that it
was numbered Tr101-1, although it was still in the company’s inventory in
1927. This results from the fact that confusion with very similar class Tr102
cannot be excluded. The sole Polish Tr101 was withdrawn before 1936 and not a
single example of this type has been preserved. Main technical data*)
*) Note: data (except
production figures) for Normalbauart neuere Ausführung. References
and acknowledgments
-
www.beitraege.lokomotive.de
(website by Ingo Hütter); -
LP; -
Lokomotiv-Archiv
Bayern by Heinz Schnabel (Transpress, 1987); -
Charakterystyka parowozów
(Steam Locomotive Characteristics)
by A.Czeczott (Ministry of Transport, 1927). |
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