Bavarian D XII

The steam engines D XII was produced by the company Krauss from 1897 for the Royal Bavarian State Railways. They were procured for the service on leading into the mountains of Munich branch lines in several model series with slightly different dimensions in a total of 96 specimens, however, were stationed liberally in many large Bavarian railway depots. Two machines with numbers 2240 and 2252 were submitted in 1916 to the Pfalzbahn, the other 94 came later to the Deutsche Reichsbahn and were classified as Class 73.0-1 with numbers 73031-124.

The Pfalzbahn procured with the third production run of D XII almost identical P 2II in 31 copies in the years 1900 to 1903, stationed among others in Neustadt. Three of these locomotives were delivered in 1920 to the railways of the Saar ( SAAR ), the other 28 locomotives were taken over as 73001-028 by the Deutsche Reichsbahn. The two machines acquired by the Bavarian State Railroad came to the SAAR, where these are the numbers 6604 and 6605 were given to the 6601-6603 as numbered Pfalzbahn machines in the terminal.

A further 37 machines with slightly different dimensions in turn procured the Imperial Railways in Alsace- Lorraine, 1903-1912. Here they were given the series designation D 32, 1906 T 5 and T 7 from 1912 and the registration numbers 2201 to 2237 ( from 1912 6601-6637 ). One of these vehicles took over the German Reichsbahn under the company number 73 125, the others were scrapped before the takeover.

The 1906 built as a single piece Bavarian Pt 2/5 H had shown that the use of superheated steam at the low brow salmon load did not yield any significant benefits. Then, in 1907 nine machines with wet steam engine as Pt 2/5 N were rebuilt again. These machines were arranged at the Deutsche Reichsbahn as 73131-73139.

The remaining at the Saar- Palatinate railways locomotives and adopted by the DR Pt 2/5 N, T 7 and P2II were retired in 1925-1935. Even the XII D were retired by 1941.

With 73 076 and 73 111, a re-use is occupied as a heating engine. 73 076 was used as a heating engine Nuremberg No. 701 002 (according to other sources than Waschlok Bw Ansbach, secondment 1948), 73 111 is used for track maintenance trains as a heating engine Nuremberg No. 701 003.

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