- Source: Heeresfeldbahnlokomotive HF 160 D
The German narrow gauge steam locomotives of military field railway (Heeresfeldbahn) class HF 160 D were 0-8-0 tender locomotives developed for wartime service during the Second World War. The engines were also classified as Kriegsdampflokomotive 11 (wartime steam locomotive 11) or KDL 11. After the war the locomotives were put to use for civilian purposes.
HF 160 D in Austria
In the Austrian Federal Railway (ÖBB), the locomotives were grouped into Class 699. Class 699.1 was a rebuild of the engines into tank locomotives. Class 699 engines could be encountered on several ÖBB narrow gauge railways: the Bregenzerwald Railway, the Pinzgau Railway, the Waldviertel Narrow Gauge Railway, the Vellach Valley Railway and the Steyr Valley Railway. Six engines had been retired by 1973, number 699.103 belonged to the operating fleet of the Steyrtalbahn until its withdrawal in 1982.
Post 1945
Société Franco-Belge 2817/1944: HF 2817 → ÖBB 699.101 → Gurk Valley Railway 699.101, operational
Société Franco-Belge 2818/1944: HF 2818 → ÖBB 699.01 → Club 760 699.01, working, in use on the Taurachbahn
Société Franco-Belge 2819/1944: HF 2819 → ÖBB 699.102
Société Franco-Belge 2821/1944: HF 2821 → ÖBB 699.103
Société Franco-Belge 2822/1944: HF 2822 → ÖBB 699.02 → ? → Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin, not working
Société Franco-Belge 2836/1945: ? → CFCD No. 10, working, Chemin de fer Froissy-Dompierre (APPEVA), France
Société Franco-Belge 2843/1945: ? → AMTP Nr. 4-12, converted to 600 mm (1 ft 11+5⁄8 in) rail gauge, working, Pithiviers, France; L'Association du Musée des Transports de Pithiviers
Société Franco-Belge 2844/1945: ? → No. unknown, converted to 600 mm rail gauge, not working, Bligny sur Ouches, France, http://www.lepetittraindebligny.com/ Archived 2008-10-31 at the Wayback Machine
Société Franco-Belge 2845/1945: ? → Le Petit Train de la Vallee de la Doller (1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)), France (loco converted to standard gauge)
Société Franco-Belge 2855/1944: HF 2855 → SKGLB 19 –without tender→ STLB 699.01 → W&LLR No. 10 Sir Drefaldwyn, Powys, Wales, Great Britain
Société Franco-Belge 2856/1944: HF 2856 → ÖBB 699.03
Société Franco-Belge 2857/1944: HF 2857 → ÖBB 699.104
See also
Heeresfeldbahn - German military field railways
