KkStB 269
| kkStB 269 BBÖ 269 ÖBB 197 |
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 kkStB 269.03 shortly after its commissioning in Vordernberg
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| Numbering: | 269.01-03 197.301-303 |
| Number: | 3 |
| Manufacturer: | Lokomotivfabrik Vienna Floridsdorf |
| Year of construction (s): | 1912 |
| Retirement: | 1975-1988 |
| Type : | Fn4zzt |
| Service mass: | 88.0 t |
| Top speed: | Adhesion: 30 km / h gear: 20 km / h |
| Indexed performance : | 824 kW |
| Boiler overpressure: | 13 bar |
The kkStB 269 was a cog railway - steam locomotive of kkStB and stood on the Erzbergbahn in Styria in use.
history
As early as 1911, the Erzbergbahn could no longer cope with the operation with the 18 existing steam locomotives of the class 69 . Since a two-track expansion of the line was not possible, stronger locomotives were required. On behalf of the Imperial-Royal Austrian State Railways (kkStB), chief designer Karl Gölsdorf designed the class 269 cogwheel steam locomotives .
There was a six-axle tank locomotive with the axle formula Fn4zzt : Six coupled driving axles in a rigid frame and a gear engine with two gears . This seldom used design as a six-coupler could transport 150 tons on this route at 15 km / h and should avoid the push service with several locomotives. In 1912 the three new steam locomotives were put into operation and were given the designation 269.01–03 . The designation 169 was already assigned to locomotives of the kkStB line Tannwald-Grünthal (today in the Czech Republic ). Since there was no further order, they could not displace the 69 series. Until the development of the 297 series in 1941, they were the most powerful cog railway locomotives in the world.
When they were taken over by the Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1938, the locomotives were given the designation 97.301–303 . From 1953, the vehicles were given the ÖBB numbers 197.301–303 in order to differentiate themselves more clearly from the previous series 97.201–218 . In 1953 the 197 series were equipped with Giesl ejectors , a performance-enhancing chimney construction. They were retired between 1975 and 1978.
The 197.301 was handed over to the Austrian Railway Museum in an operational condition in 1979 and is currently in the Strasshof Railway Museum in Lower Austria . It has not been put back into operation since its boiler deadline expired in 2002. (As of 2020)
Preserved steam locomotives of the series
| number | Construction year | State of preservation | Owner / location |
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| 197,301 | 1912 | Showpiece | TMW / Railway Museum Strasshof |
literature
- Dieter Zoubek: Preserved steam locomotives in and from Austria. Self-published, 2004, ISBN 3-200-00174-7 .
- Johann Blieberger, Josef Pospichal: die kkStB- Triebfahrzeuge, Volume 3. The series 61 to 380. bahnmedien.at, 2010, ISBN 978-3-9502648-6-9 .
- Arthur Meyer, Josef Pospichal: Rack railway locomotives from Floridsdorf . bahnmedien.at, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-9503304-0-3
- Hans Steffan : A new cogwheel locomotive for the Austrian State Railways. In: Die Lokomotive , 1913, pp. 25–26 ( ANNO - AustriaN Newspapers Online )
