DRG Class 99.73–76

DRG Class 99.73–76
Class 99.73-76
DRG 99.73-76.jpg
Number(s): 99 731 - 762 DRG / DR
99 1731 - 99 1761 DR
Quantity: 32
Manufacturer: Sächsische Maschinenfabrik
Berliner Maschinenbau
Year(s) of manufacture: 1928, 1933
Retired: from 1945
Wheel arrangement: 2-10-2
Axle arrangement: 1'E1' h2
Type: K 57.9
Gauge: 750 mm
Length over couplers: 10,540 mm
Height: 3,550 mm
Overall wheelbase: 7,600 mm
Service weight: 56.7 t
Adhesive weight: 46.1 t
Top speed: 30 km/h
Indicated Power: 600 PSi, 441 kW
Starting tractive effort: 83.35 kN
Driving wheel diameter: 800 mm
Carrying wheel diameter: 550 mm
Valve gear: Walschaerts (Heusinger)
No. of cylinders: 2
Cylinder bore: 400 mm
Piston stroke: 450 mm
Boiler Overpressure: 14 bar
Grate area: 1.74 m²
Radiative heating area: 6.70 m²
Superheater area: 29.00 m²
Evaporative heating area: 80.30 m²
Water capacity: 5.8 m³
Fuel: 2.5 t coal
Locomotive brakes: Knorr compressed-air brake
Train brakes: Körting vacuum brake
Heberlein brake initially
Couplers: Scharfenberg couplers

The German Class 99.73-76 engines were standard locomotives (Einheitslokomotiven) in service with the Deutsche Reichsbahn for Saxony's narrow gauge railways. Together with their follow-on class, the DR Class 99.77-79, they were the most powerful narrow gauge locomotives in Germany for the 750 mm rail gauge.

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History

Although there was already a very powerful locomotive for operations on the mountain lines in the Ore Mountains (Erzgebirge) of eastern Germany in the shape of the ten-coupled ex-Saxon Class 99.67-71, there was a further requirement for an even more powerful class. So it fell to the newly formed Reichsbahn railway division of Dresden to procured an Einheitslok with a 750 mm rail gauge. The Standardisation Office of the German Locomotive Union in Berlin-Tegel prepared the design for this class.

The first series of 13 locomotives was built by the Sächsische Maschinenfabrik, previously Richard Hartmann, in Chemnitz. According to the supply agreement, the Sächsische Maschinenfabrik was supposed to deliver more locos, but as a result of its bankruptcy and liquidation in 1930, this order was transferred to the Berliner Maschinenbau AG (BMAG), previously Schwartzkopff. In 1928, seven locomotives were supplied by BMAG and another twelve followed in 1933.

The locomotives were very modern for their time, and were similar in design to the standard gauge Einheitslokomotiven. The engines fulfilled expectations; by double-heading it was now possible to haul even very long (up to 56 axles) narrow gauge trains uphill.

In 1945, ten locomotives had to be given to the Soviet Union as war reparations. At the same time, there was an enormous increase in the transportation required in the Erzgebirge mountains as a result of new uranium mines opened by SDAG Wismut. In 1952, in order to assist with the resulting shortage of locomotives, a similar follow-on class emerged, DR Class 99.77-79, built by the VEB Lokomotivbau Karl Marx in Babelsberg. At the end of the 1960s, the first Class 99.73-76 engines had to be retired due to boiler damage. Ten locomotives were given new, welded boilers and continued to work their original routes. In 1992, number 99 1760 was converted to oil-firing.

Technical Features

These ten-coupled locomotives had carrying axles housed in a Bissel bogie. The fixed third axle acted as the driving axle and had thinner wheel flanges to begin with. After 1945 its flanges were removed entirely to improve curve running still further. The wheelbase was 3,000 mm initially; this was later increased to 4,000 mm.

As was typical on all Einheitslokomotiven, the engine had a Knorr feedwater preheater mounted tranversely above the smokebox. The boiler was fed using Friedmann exhaust steam injectors.

Because Heberlein brakes were still partially in use at that time, the locomotives also had, on delivery, the necessary equipment for them, complete with guide rollers and winders (Haspel). The locomotive itself had a Knorr compressed-air brake which was controlled by the vacuum brake used for the train.

As the first engines were delivered in 1928, it was already planned, to replace the elderly funnel couplers by Scharfenberg couplers. So the first locomotives still had funnel couplers to begin; these were later swapped for the new couplings without any difficulty.

Operations

At the outset single locomotives were even used in the Thumer Netz and in Wilsdruff. On the hilly routes of Hainsberg–Kipsdorf, Cranzahl–Oberwiesenthal and Zittau–Oybin/Jonsdorf, however, these powerful engines soon became the main prime movers.

Today the Class 99.73-76 locomotives are stationed in Zittau and Freital-Hainsberg. One engine has also been on duty on the Lößnitzgrund Railway since the closure of the Weisseritz Valley Railway due to flooding (as at 03/2007).

See also

Sources

  • Erich Preuß/Rainer Preuß Schmalspurbahnen in Sachsen; transpress Verlag, Stuttgart, 1998 ISBN 3-613-71079-X
  • Jürgen U. Ebel, Bernd Seiler: Die Baureihe 99.73-79 – Einheitslok auf schmaler Spur. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1994, ISBN 3-88255-119-4

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