Steam railcar

A steam powered rail cars, steam engines or steam wagon is powered by a steam engine vehicle of the railway. The combination of steam locomotive and railcar is considered the forerunner of the later combustion railcars. Steam railcars were usually designed as one-way vehicles and therefore had to be turned over to the terminal stations using turntables.

History

Very early in the history of the railroad was trying to combine driving and seat availability in a vehicle in order to also cover low traffic economically. However, the first attempts in this direction were not very successful due to the lack of power and the problematic placement of boilers, coal and water supply.

1854 delivered Borsig a steam-powered handcar on the Berlin- Hamburg Railway, which was equipped with a passenger compartment and a stationary boiler. This was the first steam powered rail cars used in the longer term, he reached a top speed of 22 km / h 1879 different steam railcars were procured in the Lower Silesian - Märkischen railway, where steam boiler and steam engine were mounted on one of the two bogies. More steam railcars in various designs were purchased by many, especially the private railroads.

The Austrian local railway company ( ÖLEG ) ordered in 1880 at the ring Hoffer plants in Prague Smichov a steam railcar ( ÖLEG C ) after there previously drove already called Luggage locomotives. This steam railcars also had two bogies, one of which is not driven, which became a characteristic design with this type of vehicle.

1883 on the Australian Victorian Railways by an " WR " Rowan taken of Copenhagen " designed " Rowan Steam Car in operation. Perhaps " W. R. Rowan " a son of Frederick James Rowan, from 1859-1872 as an engineer working for the first Jutland Funen Railroad, full name William Robert Rowan

Beginning in 1883, double-deck steam railcars were popular. One of the first railway companies, of which they were used, including the Hessian Ludwig Railway and Royal Bavarian State Railways. You steam railcar used Thomas construction.

Between 1893 and 1909, the Royal Württemberg State Railways ( kWStE ) purchased a total of 17 steam railcar DW, however, used in the first car Serpollet boiler did not prove itself in operation. 1902 also bought the Baden State Railways at the Maschinenfabrik Esslingen a steam railcar with Serpollet boiler, the 133c. Seven other cars followed 1914/15; this immediately received the coat - boiler, they were popular as a reliable and dependable vehicles.

A 1907 to 1937 on the Federseemuseum train in- service railcars gauge 750 mm with wheel arrangement (1A ) '2 ' and superheated steam drive, called the DWSS 1, comes to quasi eighteenth car to this group. He had also been built in the Maschinenfabrik Esslingen and met - except for the conditional by the permissible axle load of only 7 four-axle chassis tonnes - the standard gauge steam railcar KWStE, but remained a one- Württemberg in spite of successful operation.

Three very similar this steam railcars from the Maschinenfabrik Esslingen, fitted in the same wheel arrangement and track width, but with wet steam engine, went in 1910 to the Bleckeder small train. They should be later converted into combustion railcars, but remained below the cost reasons; instead, they were converted to passenger cars or scrapped after severe damage.

After the First World War, the development of the steam railcar was in competition for the concurrent development of the internal combustion engine cars. In the United States, the system Doble was developed at that time. These fully automatic steam generation facilities promised economic operation. Nine railcar No. 51 to 59 were built by the German Reichsbahn to testing. Due to the twice as high fuel consumption compared to the internal combustion engine car was to dispense with further purchases.

1933 from the Lübeck- Büchener Railroad ( LBE ) taken the Dampftriebzug with number 2000 Operating and deployed starting in May 1935 between Lübeck and Hamburg, from 1936, on the route between Lübeck and Lüneburg. This railcar has received two Doble steam generators, which have been successfully operated with Braunkohlenteeröl. From the DR, he was named DT 63 During the Second World War, this railcar was retired.

After the Second World War 59 trials with a pulverized coal type Wendler were by the German Reichsbahn (DR ) with the railcar DT made ​​. This time, it was found that combustion railcars were more economical. This railcar was at Deutsche Reichsbahn only a short time in use. At the German Federal Railroad Württemberg steam railcars were used until 1952.

A steam railcar Uerikon - Bauma -Bahn can still be seen in operation in Switzerland when DVZO.

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