HRB R IIIc.4
Under the name RIIIc , the KukHeeresbahnen combined 600mm field railway - steam locomotives of similar construction features. While a series is usually defined by matching the construction plans, the Heeresfeldbahn classified only on the basis of the track width , axle pressure and the number of coupled axles.
Breakdown of the designation based on the RIIIc locomotive . 418 :
R - runway (600mm)
III - axle pressure (3.0 to 3.5t.)
c - three coupled axles
418 - "consecutive" number
As a result, manufacturers such as Henschel , Krauss / Linz, Lokomotivfabrik Floridsdorf , Breitfeld & Danek, First Bohemian-Moravian Machine Factory - Prag-Lieben, Smoschewer & Co. Breslau u. a. Locomotives which differ greatly in construction and appearance.
After the First World War , most of the copies were sold to factory , forest and field railways, and a few were also sold to public railway companies ; for example to the Czechoslovak State Railways ČSD .
The last RIIIc ran until the 1970s on the industrial line Mladejov na Moravě - Hrebec in Moravia ; a reconstructed and reinforced specimen was still in service there until the 1990s. Today some RIIIc are still preserved in railway museums and light rail collections.
literature
- Dieter Zoubek: Preserved steam locomotives in and from Austria , self-published, 2004, ISBN 3-200-00174-7