DB class V 169
| DB class V 169/219 | |
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 219 001 in the Ruhr area
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| Numbering: | V 169 001 from 1968: 219 001 |
| Number: | 1 |
| Manufacturer: | Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz |
| Year of construction (s): | 1965 |
| Retirement: | 1978 |
| Axis formula : | B'B ' |
| Length over buffers: | 16400 mm |
| Bogie axle base: | 2800 mm |
| Total wheelbase: | 11400 mm |
| Service mass: | 76.7 t |
| Wheel set mass : | 20 t |
| Top speed: | 130 km / h |
| Installed capacity: | 1580 kW (2150 PS) + 662 kW (900 PS) gas turbine |
| Motor type: | MTU MD 16 V 538 TB; Gas turbine: LM 100 PA 104 |
| Motor type: | 1 diesel engine + switchable gas turbine |
| Power transmission: | hydraulic |
| Tank capacity: | 3330 l |
| Train heating: | electric |
The V 169 001 was the prototype for diesel locomotives with a gas turbine as an additional drive. The locomotive was developed in 1965 from the V 160 series. The German Federal Railroad procured only one locomotive from the V 169 series . Its IT-compatible name from 1968 on was 219 001-5 .
After a complete renovation, it was in operation as EVB 420.01 for the railways and transport companies Elbe-Weser until 2013, albeit without a gas turbine .
Development and testing
After delivery of the V 160 series began in large numbers in 1963, plans were drawn up for further prototypes to test the future unit type. These should be equipped with an electric train heater. This required more engine power than the engines previously installed in the V 160 could deliver. On the one hand, three copies of the V 162 were ordered, which were also equipped with a smaller diesel engine, the heating diesel . In addition, a locomotive was also procured with the V 169, which received a gas turbine to increase performance.
The gas turbine was chosen the LM 100-PA 104 from General Electric , but instead of kerosene with diesel should be operated. The turbine for the locomotive was built under license from Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz , or KHD for short, at the Oberursel (Taunus) plant (today the German part of Rolls-Royce ). So it was obvious that KHD also received the order for the locomotive.
The KHD plant in Cologne delivered the V 169 001 with the serial number 57846 on June 4, 1965. It was then presented to the public at the International Transport Exhibition in Munich. Then the train heating was completed, so that it was not accepted by the DB until October 29, 1965. From March 1966 it was then tested on the Allgäu Railway from Munich to Lindau . For this she was in Bw Kempten stationed. The design of the V 169, driving the generator for the heating with a power take-off shaft from the fluid transmission, has proven itself here and was adopted for later series 218 and 210 series locomotives . The basic usefulness of the auxiliary drive with gas turbine was also proven. This drive was later set up in the same way as in the series locomotives with gas turbines of the 210 series, which, however, received a more powerful turbine of the Avco Lycoming T53 -L-13 type .
Operation after the gas turbine has been tested
With the appearance of the 210 series in Kempten in 1971, the less powerful 219 001-5 on the Allgäu Railway was overtaken. When the gas turbine suffered damage to the combustion chamber in 1974 , it was removed. The diesel engine was throttled to 1400 kW (1900 hp). The locomotive's heating system was also shut down. With these modifications, the locomotive could no longer be used in Kempten. The locomotive came to the Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck depot from 1975 as a pure freight locomotive and was used there until the deadline on November 25, 1977. She was often seen at the head of delivery trains to the Dutch border area; here she was regularly used on the route to Winterswijk . In 1978 the locomotive was retired from the DB and was then parked unprotected in Bremen until 1985 . The locomotive was then sold to a track construction company in Italy , refurbished and mostly used between Rome and Naples with the designation T1591.
Conversion and operation at German private railways
| Conversion to DH 280.01 / EVB 420 01 | |
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 DH 280.01 in August 2001 with the green-gray color scheme of the Waldhof AG railway company near Stromberg in front of a lime freight train.
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| Numbering: | From 1999: DH 280 01 From 2002: 420 01 |
| Number: | 1 |
| Manufacturer: | Gmeinder Lokomotiv- und Maschinenfabrik Mosbach |
| Year of construction (s): | 1999/2000 |
| Axis formula : | B'B ' |
| Length over buffers: | 16400 mm |
| Service mass: | 78 t |
| Wheel set mass : | 20 t |
| Top speed: | 120 km / h |
| Continuous output : | 2058 kW / 2800 PS |
| Motor type: | Caterpillar 3516 B - TA - JW |
| Power transmission: | hydraulic |
| Train heating: | no |
Due to the German rail reform , inexpensive used locomotives with approval for Germany were in great demand. The Railimpex company brought the V 169 back to Germany and had it reconditioned by the Gmeinder company in Mosbach . She arrived there in December 1998. The overhaul comprised the replacement of the Maybach diesel engine with a Caterpillar engine, a revision of the fluid transmission and the installation of new cabling. The work-up was completed on April 6, 2000. The former Waldhof railway company in Mannheim, BGW for short, bought the locomotive for their freight traffic and called it the DH 280 01. It was painted in the BGW's green-gray color scheme. In the summer of 2000 she carried garbage trucks from Hildesheim to Krefeld until she had to go back to the Gmeinder company for repairs in September due to a rear-end collision . It was not put back into operation until February 2001. After that she drove lime trains for BASF from Stromberg to Ludwigshafen am Rhein . At the end of October 2001 it was sold to the Elbe-Weser Railways and Transport Company , EVB for short, and used there in front of container trains between Hamburg , Bremerhaven and Bremen . From 2002 the EVB ran the locomotive according to its new numbering scheme as 420 01. The locomotive was parked in 2013 after an accident with frame damage that was not known in detail. In August 2015, 420.01 was parked in the Bremervörde depot.
literature
- Horst J. Obermayer: Paperback German Diesel Locomotives . Franck'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart 1972, ISBN 3-440-03932-3 , p. 80-81 .
Web links
- 420.01 (ex DB 219 001) of the EVB. (PDF; 94 KiB) Archived from the original on July 19, 2011 ; accessed on May 4, 2018 .