Palatine T 5

The freight locomotives of the genus T 5 of the Palatine railways were impeller unprincipled tender locomotives with five Kuppelradsätzen.

History

The machines were specially designed for use against heavy coal trains on the steep ramp between Pirmasens and Biebermühle 1907 at the company Krauss & Comp., Munich Allach procured. These were to the last tank locomotive type which has been independently developed by the Palatine railways. They arrived in the plane a speed of 40 km / h at 1,510 t Wagenzugmasse. On a slope of two per thousand they could still carry 200 tonnes at 30 km / hr. Thus they were less powerful than the contemporary impeller unprincipled Five coupler of the tracks of Prussia, Saxony and Württemberg.

The locomotives were classified in 1925 by the Deutsche Reichsbahn as Class 94.0 in its numbering plan. Because their performance was worse than that of other five countries -coupled locomotives were retired in 1926.

The former No. 307 (94 002) was sold to the Eschweiler mine Club ( EBV), which it established in the coal mine Carl Alexander in Baesweiler to 1974; she wore during EBV the name Carl Alexander and the operation number 3 This locomotive has been preserved, it is issued for railway history eV in Neustadt on the Wine Route in the Museum of the German Society.

Design features

The locomotives possessed a riveted sheet metal frame; the water tank was placed between the boiler and the frame.

The boiler had two boiler barrel shots and a wide, above the firebox frame with copper firebox. The boiler feed, took two steam jet pumps.

The second and fourth Kuppelradsatz were fixed in the frame, the other wheel sets were led displaced laterally from after Gölsdorf principle.

The two-cylinder wet steam engine with a simple steam expansion drove to the fourth Kuppelradsatz. The monorail crosshead guide was conspicuous far back in the region of the second Kuppelradsatzes. The steam engine had piston valve with external inflow and an outboard Heusinger control with suspended iron. Unusual was also far below the middle and was below the slide bar assembly, the slide push rod.

As brake came under Palatine specifications air brakes of the type Schleiffer used which worked on both sides of the second and third coupled axle. In addition, there was a Extersche handbrake.