DR VT 137 600
| DR VT 137 600 | |
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 historical photo
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| Numbering: | VT 137 600 |
| Number: | 1 |
| Manufacturer: | Depot Dresden-Pieschen |
| Year of construction (s): | 1951 |
| Retirement: | after 1960 |
| Axis formula : | 2 '(1A) (1A) 2' |
| Genre : | C8pvT (until 1956) KB8p (from 1956) |
| Gauge : | 750 mm |
| Length over coupling: | 33,380 mm |
| Trunnion Distance: | 9330 mm / 8400 mm |
| Bogie axle base: | 1270 mm |
| Empty mass: | 30.0 t |
| Service mass: | 39.0 t |
| Top speed: | 30 km / h |
| Installed capacity: | 2 × 75 hp |
| Driving wheel diameter: | 700 mm |
| Impeller diameter: | 600 mm |
| Motor type: | 6-cylinder four-stroke diesel engine |
| Power transmission: | mechanical with two Mylius gears |
| Brake: | Knorr air brake |
| Seats: | 67 |
The VT 137 600 , colloquially known as the Lindwurm , was a diesel multiple unit of the Deutsche Reichsbahn . The one-off built in 1951 did not prove itself and was probably taken out of service in the 1960s.
history
In 1939/1940, the Latvian State Railways workshop built three three-part 901–903 multiple units for the Liepaja – Aizpute route. Passenger cars built by Linke-Hofmann in 1923 were equipped with an end driver's cab for the end sections . The middle section with the drive system was a new building. It was powered by two Mercedes-Benz diesel engines, each with an output of 100 hp and each connected to a Mylius gearbox . A maximum speed of 70 km / h could be achieved. The 901 railcar was refurbished in Poland in 1950 on the Krotoschin – Pleschen railway line and was in service as the Mxx 189 until 1962.
When the Wehrmacht withdrew in 1944, railcars 902 and 903 came to Saxony and were parked at the Selva station. They were badly damaged in an air raid. Due to a lack of vehicles in the GDR, the Dresden-Pieschen railway depot built a three-part articulated railcar from the remains of the 903 railcar. The construction of the other railcar did not take place.
In 1951 the vehicle was put into operation on the Freital-Potschappel-Nossen narrow-gauge railway . Since the vehicle did not prove itself in Wilsdruff, it was stationed in Zittau in 1954 on the narrow-gauge railway Zittau – Kurort Oybin / Kurort Jonsdorf . Since the vehicle output was not sufficient for the mountainous routes here too, the vehicle was handed over to the north of the GDR in 1957. It was only in use for a few days on Rügen. In 1958, the end cars in Raw Wittenberge were also given central doors. In 1962 the railcar came to the Prignitzer Netz , where it was only used for a few days. In 1963 it was passed on to the Burger network and retired in 1965. In the Salzwedel depot, it still served as a storage room until one end and one middle section was scrapped in 1970. The second end part was only scrapped in 1989.
technical features
Two diesel engines each drove one axle of the bogie adjacent to the drive part. Initially, 100 hp engines were used, but these were later exchanged for 75 hp engines from VEB Motorenwerk Schönebeck . The railcar had a single-release Knorr air brake, which was exchanged for a multi-release one in 1954 at the Zittau depot. The driver's cabs had a safety driving circuit. The end sections had two compartments in addition to the driver's cab. They only had one door on each side, which was arranged as a sliding door behind the driver's cab. In the middle part were the baggage and the driver's part with a wider two-part sliding door. The low-pressure circulating air heating was also exchanged for hot water circulation heating in 1954. There was no normal coupling, but there was an emergency coupling to enable towing by locomotives. The color scheme was initially blue on the side walls and ivory in the window area, later red-ivory.
literature
- Peter Wunderwald: Narrow-gauge delicacies. In: eisenbahn-magazin 12/2012, pp. 70f.
- Roman Witkowski: Tajemnicze trójczłonowe zespoły motorowe na tor szerokości 750 mm in: Świat kolei 08/2015, pages 40–43.
Web links
- Website from the model railway shop Sebnitz with a photo of the VT 137 600
- Website about the model of the VT 137 600
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reiner Preuß: The Zittau – Oybin – Jonsdorfer Eisenbahn , transpress Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, p. 111 f.