DR 99 281

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DR 99 281
Numbering: 99 281
Number: 1
Manufacturer: Weidknecht
Year of construction (s): 1910
Retirement: 1955
Type : C n2t
Genre : K 33.4
Gauge : 1000 mm ( meter gauge )
Length over buffers: 5,550 mm
Height: 3050
Total wheelbase: 1,800 mm
Service mass: 11.8 t
Friction mass: 11.8 t
Top speed: 25 km / h
Performance indicator: 59 kW
Driving wheel diameter: 700 mm
Control type : Allan
Number of cylinders: 2
Boiler overpressure: 10 bar
Number of heating pipes: 50
Evaporation heating surface: 23.8 m²
Water supply: 1.0 m³
Fuel supply: 0.3 t

The DR 99 281 was a three-axle narrow - gauge locomotive of the Deutsche Reichsbahn .

history

During the Second World War, three steam locomotives were brought to Wangerooge in 1944 as part of the Todt Organization's coastal fortification program . One came from a French secondary railway and was with Ateliers de Construction du Pont Flandre, Weidknecht Frères & Cie. was built in Paris. It was no longer used on Wangerooge , and was handed over in 1949. In 1952 it was reprocessed and returned to the Walhalla Railway . There it only served as a reserve, in 1955 it was retired.

technical features

The locomotive had an inner frame that also held the water tank. It had an Allan control with a flat slide, and the third axis was driven. The coal supplies were housed in the driver's cab to the side of the boiler.

literature

  • Malte Werning: Wangerooge: The island railway and its history . Lokrundschau Verlag, Gülzow 1999, ISBN 3-931647-09-9 .