SEG 400 and 401
| SEG No. 400 and 401 | |
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 91 6580 in November 1990 in Eisenach
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| Numbering: | SEG 400/401 DR 91 6580 |
| Number: | 2 |
| Manufacturer: | Henschel , Kassel |
| Year of construction (s): | 1938, 1941 |
| Type : | 1'Ch2t |
| Genre : | Gt 35.15 |
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) |
| Total wheelbase: | 5,300 mm |
| Empty mass: | 46.8 t |
| Service mass: | 56.5 t |
| Wheel set mass : | 15.9 t |
| Top speed: | 60 km / h |
| Driving wheel diameter: | 1,200 mm |
| Number of cylinders: | 2 |
| Cylinder diameter: | 480 mm |
| Piston stroke: | 550 mm |
| Boiler overpressure: | 14 bar |
| Grate area: | 1.78 m² |
| Water supply: | 6.0 m² |
| Fuel supply: | 2.0 t |
The SEG 400 and SEG 401 were two superheated steam locomotives of the Süddeutsche Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (SEG). This locomotive design was built by Henschel especially for the SEG and is principally based on the chassis of the ELNA 2 or ELNA 5 , but has a different structure and is heavier and faster than the ELNA locomotives.
history
SEG 400 was procured by SEG in 1938 for the Ilmenau – Großbreitenbach railway line .
In 1941 the identical SEG 401 followed, which was delivered to the SEG company of the Bregtalbahn . This machine was to remain the last steam locomotive to be built for the SEG. No. 401 remained in use there until the Bregtalbahn was closed in 1972 and was then scrapped in 1973.
The SEG 400 was initially used in the Soviet occupation zone between Ilmenau and Großbreitenbach and remained stationed in Gehren. After the nationalization of the SEG lines in the GDR, the SEG 400 was given the new Reichsbahn road number 91 6580 from 1950. In the summer of 1954 the machine came to the Mühlhausen locomotive station of the Gotha depot and was used on the local branch lines until 1969 . During this time, some modifications were made. a. the left water tank shortened, a Knorr-type surface preheater installed and a jet pump installed.
With the change of mode of transport and the change of traction, the machine was superfluous and was sold to the Erfurt industrial railway in 1969 , which then used 91 6580 as locomotive No. 4 II . In 1979 the vehicle had to be parked after boiler damage, but the locomotive was not scrapped. The now run-down machine was transferred to the DMV in 1988 ; when it was transferred from Erfurt - the last parking place - to Eisenach, the former works locomotive derailed in Erfurt and was slightly damaged. In 1990 the DR took over the locomotive and had it repaired as a traditional locomotive in Raw Meiningen that same year .
When it was taken over by DB , 91 6580 was added to the vehicle fleet as 088 916-2. The machine has been parked at the Arnstadt depot since the boiler deadline expired in the summer of 1997 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Kurth: The Ilmenau-Großbreitenbacher Railway - The History of a "Southern German" Private Railway in Thuringia , EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2005, ISBN 3-88255-587-4 , p. 88
- ^ Rainer Humbach: Bregtalbahn , in: Branch and narrow-gauge railways in Germany then and now. 87th supplementary edition , GeraMond Verlag, Munich 2010, ISSN 0949-2143