PKP class Pm36

The PM36 series consisted of two express steam locomotives of Polish State Railways PKP. Because of its elegant exterior, the locomotives as Piękna Helena ( Helen of Troy ) are known.

History

The series PM36 was built in 1937 at Fablok Chrzanów in two copies. The provided with a streamlining PM36 -1 was exhibited at the 1937 World Exhibition in Paris, where he was awarded a gold medal. You reached 150 km / h on tracks in Germany. A planned series production of the locomotives did not come off because of the Second World War.

First, in 1939 PM36 -1 de-energized, queued in the collections of the Deutsche Reichsbahn than 18 601 and used in Berlin -Grunewald. The undisguised second locomotive was first when she got captured Soviet and after the commencement of the Russian campaign in German hands, as 18 602 queued. 18 601 ( PM36 -1 ) was located in 1945 to the war in Berlin, but was no longer used and finally scrapped in October 1952. After German conquest, the Austrian exile, Soviet prompted evacuation was PM36 -2 from 1947 reinstated express trains of PKP (as PM36 -1). In 1965, the locomotive was retired as a maverick and got into the stock of the Railway Museum in Warsaw. Now it stands as operably outdoor exhibit for special trains of railroad enthusiasts available.

In 1995 the machine was worked operable from ZNTK Pila as a museum locomotive and again referred to as PM36 -2. Currently, the locomotive is used by the steam locomotive depot Wolsztyn even before regular regional trains.

Pictures

PM36 -1 in Paris

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