Württemberg C

The locomotives of Class C of the Royal Württemberg State Railways were express locomotives with the wheel arrangement 2'C1 ' (Pacific ). The C was the smallest 2C1 - Länderbahnlok.

Technology

The 41 vehicles were built 1909-1921 by the Maschinenfabrik Esslingen. They were designed from the outset for the topography Württemberg and therefore had driving wheels with only 1,800 mm diameter. The locomotives were, although they were among the smallest machine of the type 2'C1 ', economical and at the same time very powerful. The machine had a four-cylinder compound engine, all four cylinders acted on the second, cranked dome axis.

The appearance of the locomotive is relatively uncommon. Striking are the outer subframe to support the sheet metal frame with the wheel wells behind them for the driving axles and the aerodynamically shaped cab, similar to the Bavarian S 2/6. The cone- shaped smoke chamber door supported the streamlined appearance. The locomotive was also called "The Beautiful Württembergerin ".

The vehicles were equipped with a Tender senders type wü 2'2'T 20 and regi 2'2'T 30.

Reichsbahn

After the first world war three machines to France and had to be handed over to Poland. The remaining 37 were taken as the class 18.1 of the Deutsche Reichsbahn. There she received the 1926 car numbers 18101-137.

Federal Railway

At the creation of the German Federal Railroad in 1949 this 23 serviceable locomotives of the series 18.1 decreed. Heilbronn 18 101, 102, 117, 118, 120, 126, 128, 131, 132, 133 and 136 were located in Ulm 18103, 104, 105, 107, 108, 109, 110, 112, 113, 122 and 123 from Heilbronn from a D- train pair between Stuttgart and Würzburg as well as express and passenger trains between Heilbronn, Mannheim and Stuttgart were covered. The Ulmer locomotives hauled next to a D- pair of trains between Ulm and Friedrichshafen mainly passenger trains between Ulm and eels. End of May 1952, the Heilbronner machines were umbeheimatet to Ulm. 1952, 18.1 z- placed and then retired and scrapped two, 1953 and 1954 eleven eight locomotives of the series. In 1955, only 18 136 and 18 133 operational. The last performance of a C drove 18 133 on 13 February 1955, a fast train from Immendingen to Ulm. No copy of the Württemberg C has been preserved.