Prussian T 16 (trial)
| T 16 (Prussia) | |
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 The Erfurt experimental locomotive in 1980
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| Numbering: | Erfurt 1980 |
| Number: | 1 |
| Manufacturer: | Henschel |
| Year of construction (s): | 1904 |
| Type : | 2'C2 'h4v |
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) |
| Length over buffers: | 17,700 mm |
| Service mass: | 123.0 t |
| Friction mass: | 59.6 t |
| Wheel set mass : | 20.0 t |
| Top speed: | 90 km / h |
| Driving wheel diameter: | 1,750 mm |
| Impeller diameter front: | 1,000 mm |
| Rear wheel diameter: | 1,000 mm |
| Number of cylinders: | 4th |
| Cylinder diameter: | 2 × 420/630 mm |
| Piston stroke: | 630 mm |
| Boiler overpressure: | 14 bar |
| Grate area: | 4.10 m² |
| Superheater area : | 44.00 m² |
| Evaporation heating surface: | 191.20 m² |
The tank locomotive of the Prussian State Railways , built in 1904 and designated as the T 16 , was a test locomotive for operation on inclined routes.
description
The locomotive with the road number Erfurt 1980 was developed by the Henschel company as a test locomotive for the inclines in Thuringia , which could pull trains weighing up to 200 tons at an incline of 10 per thousand at 75 km / h and on the flat at up to 90 km / h . It was one of the first tank locomotives with the 2'C2 ' wheel arrangement, which guaranteed stable running characteristics in both directions even at high speeds. In addition to the usual driver's cab, it had a front cab . Since the stoker was only with the driver in one direction of travel , a third man had to be deployed on the locomotive to monitor the route.
With an axle load of 20 tons, however, the machine was much too heavy for its time and could therefore hardly be used. The locomotive, which was around 20 years ahead of its time, was returned to the Henschel company after it had been used for some time and was scrapped by them. The state railroad only procured a practical successor eight years later with the T 18 class 2'C2 'tank locomotives .
The designation T 16 was given again to the completely differently constructed freight train tank locomotives with the E wheel arrangement.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Lothar Spielhoff: Länderbahn steam locomotives . tape 1 . Prussia, Mecklenburg, Oldenburg, Saxony and Alsace-Lorraine. Weltbild, Augsburg 1995, ISBN 3-89350-819-8 , p. 87 (first edition: Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 1990).
- ^ Horst J. Obermayer: Steam locomotives standard gauge . Weltbild, Augsburg 1995, ISBN 3-89350-819-8 , p. 177 (first edition: Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 1990).
- ^ Horst J. Obermayer: Steam locomotives standard gauge . Weltbild, Augsburg 1995, ISBN 3-89350-819-8 , p. 221 (first edition: Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 1990).