TAG 7

TAG 7 is a steam locomotive in 1936 by Krauss -Maffei as EAEC 7 for the private railroad corporation Schaftlach - Gmund Tegernsee ( Euratom) - the later Tegernsee- Bahn AG (TAG) - was designed and built. It is now owned by the Bavarian Localbahn association.

The tank locomotive with the wheel arrangement 1'D1 ' applies, together with its sister machines LAG 87 and 88, when the last and strongest local railway locomotive, which was constructed in Bavaria. A power of 470 PSI ( 346 kW ) allowed in both directions of a top speed of 70 km / h The EAG needed the new machine as a relief for her two smaller machines EAEC 5 and 6 ( type Bavarian GtL 4/4) on and around the now-obsolete machines EAG 3 and 4 gradually dismissed from the service. The DAY 7 was so successful that a year later two machines from the local railway Aktien-Gesellschaft (LAG ) were reconstructed.

The DAY 7 served until 1975 as an operating reserve of the Tegernsee -Bahn, the same found in the 1970s already first museum trips on Lake Tegernsee, organized by a working group of the German Society for Railway History ( DGEG ). When threatened an end to the rides and a scrapping of the machine because of the expiry of the DAY 7, the Bavarian local track club founded to raise the money for the necessary examination of the main DAY 7. The machine - de jure still the property of the DAY - remained stationed until the late 1990s at the Tegernsee, the local track club financed all further investigation and maintenance. In 1999, after the transition driving operation on the Tegernsee -Bahn to Bayerische Oberland Bahn, TAG eventually sold the machine to the club. At the same depot in Tegernsee had to be vacated; TAG 7 has since been stationed at Bw Landshut and will continue to be used while driving. Since May 2005, the TAG 7 has the automatic train control system PZB 90 Due to boiler damage is the locomotive at the time off, the club is planning to build a new boiler.

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  • Brief information of the TAG successor company to DAY 7
  • Bavarian local track club
  • Current information about the TAG 7
  • TAG7 cab panoramic
  • Tender locomotive wheel arrangement 1D1
  • Motor vehicle ( German private railway )
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