LAG Nos. 87 and 88

The locomotives with train numbers 87 and 88 were steam locomotives of the Local Bahn AG (LAG ). They were the last two machines that earned the LAG in their history, because shortly after delivery in 1937, the company was nationalized. The locomotives were similar to their construction largely the locomotive DAY 7, which had been developed in 1936 by Krauss -Maffei for the Tegernsee- Bahn AG (TAG). The DAY 7 ( and her two sister machines) are considered the last local train locomotives that were designed and built in Bavaria. Unlike the two LAG machines DAY 7 remained as operating reserve of Tegernseebahn and later preserved as a museum locomotive to date. It is maintained by the Bavarian local track club and regularly used for museum trips around Munich.

The DAY 7 and her sister machines are at the end of a development set of the first three-axis local railway machine end of the 19th century, the Bavarian GtL 4/4 (DR- series 98.8-9 and 98.16 ) and the derived DR series 98.10 and 98.11, the are also referred to as GTL 4/5. The relationship between the types is purely externally visible. In ancient Bavarian spelling TAG / LAG machines a GtL 4/6 would probably have been: Unlike the GtL 4/5 of the original design of the GTL 4/4 was supplemented by two synchronized axes, each in a Krauss- Helmholtz bogie were arranged. The coupled wheel had been increased from 1006 to 1100 mm. Thus arose in both directions very good running characteristics, and the top speed increased to 70 km / h. The three locomotives were the largest and most powerful local railway locomotives that have ever been used in Germany.

First, the two LAG machines were stationed in Fussen. Both locomotives were designated as the class 98.18 in the possession of the Deutsche Reichsbahn and were adopted after the Second World War by the German Federal Railroad. They were in use until 1960, most recently in Kempten.