VSB C 2/3
| VSB C 2/3 | |
|---|---|
| Numbering: | CDB 41-48 |
| Number: | 8th |
| Manufacturer: | Karlsruhe |
| Year of construction (s): | 1856-1858 |
| Retirement: | 1863 sale |
| Axis formula : | 1B |
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) |
| Length over buffers: | 13,500 mm |
| Service mass: | 39.5 t |
| Wheel set mass : | 8.75 t |
| Top speed: | 70 km / h |
| Driving wheel diameter: | 1,524 mm |
| Cylinder diameter: | 381 mm |
| Piston stroke: | 610 mm |
| Boiler overpressure: | 6.66 bar |
| Grate area: | 0.8 m² |
| Superheater area : | no |
| Evaporation heating surface: | 86.3 m² |
The United Swiss Railways (VSB) owned eight C 2/3 mixed-train locomotives . At the VSB they had the series designation III. The first three machines were still delivered to the Glatthalbahn , which was incorporated into the VSB in 1857.
Technical
This is a steam locomotive of the Stephenson long boiler type. It was procured from the Karlsruhe machine works at a unit price of 66,000 Swiss Francs. It largely corresponded to OS B 2/3 , which was also purchased in a similar design for the Rhine Falls Railway. Due to the early sale, only sparse information is available. So she probably still had a wood-burning spark arrester. Machines 41 and 42 were temporarily set up for firing shale coal, but this type of firing did not prove itself.
| VSB number |
Surname | Factory number |
Manufacturer | Construction year | sale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 41 | Smooth | 29 | Karlsruhe | 1856 | 1863 |
| 42 | Uster | 29 | Karlsruhe | 1856 | 1863 |
| 43 | Jonah | 49 | Karlsruhe | 1857 | 1863 |
| 44 | Glaernisch | 78 | Karlsruhe | 1858 | 1863 |
| 45 | Wallensee | 79 | Karlsruhe | 1858 | 1863 |
| 46 | Glarus | 80 | Karlsruhe | 1858 | 1863 |
| 47 | Linth | 81 | Karlsruhe | 1858 | 1863 |
| 48 | Rapperswil | 82 | Karlsruhe | 1858 | 1863 |
Operational
Since the entire series of locomotives was sold to Italy in 1863, very little is known.
swell
- Alfred Moser: The steam operation of the Swiss railways 1847-1966. P. 120ff.