- Source: Palatine P 5
The six-coupled 5.180.24.3/info/p" target="_blank">P 5 of the Palatinate Railway (Pfalzbahn) was to replace the four-coupled locomotives in the Palatinate. They were given a leading Krauss-Helmholtz bogie and a trailing bogie in order to achieve satisfactory weight distribution.
The firm of Krauss delivered twelve examples in 1908. One notable feature was the particularly large coal and water tanks requested by the Railway. The Deutsche Reichsbahn took all the vehicles over and converted them to superheated engines. After the end of the Second World War nine were left. Most of them were sold to private railways. The last one owned by the Deutsche Bundesbahn was retired in 1951.
After the 5.180.24.3/info/palatine" target="_blank">Palatine 5.180.24.3/info/p" target="_blank">P 5 had proved successful, the Royal Bavarian State Railways (Königlich Bayerische Staatsbahn) decided to procure more of this class in a more powerful version. As a result, the 5.180.24.3/info/palatine" target="_blank">Palatine Pt 3/6 was built from 1911. A total of 19 engines were procured. In 1923 a further 10 of these two-cylinder superheated steam engines were ordered for Bavaria as the Bavarian Pt 3/6. They were deployed on the express train routes between Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Munich. All the engines were taken over by the Reichsbahn, the Bavarian versions being given the operating numbers 77 110–119. One machine was lost during the Second World War. The Deutsche Bundesbahn took over 27 engines and retired them by 1954. One locomotive remained with the East German DR and was retired in 1956.
See also
Royal Bavarian State Railways
Palatinate Railway
List of Bavarian locomotives and railbuses
List of 5.180.24.3/info/palatine" target="_blank">Palatine locomotives and railbuses
References
Literature
Emich/Becker (1996), Die Eisenbahnen an Glan und Lauter (in German), Waldmohr: Selbstverlag, ISBN 3-9804919-0-0
Lothar Spielhoff (2011), Lokomotiven der Pfälzischen Eisenbahn (in German), Germering: Jürgen Pepke, ISBN 978-3-940798-15-2
Manfred Weisbrod, Hans Müller, Wolfgang Petznick: Dampflokomotiven 3. Baureihen 61 bis 98. 4. Auflage, transpress Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-344-70841-4, S. 85 ff.
Ludwig v. Welser, Helge Hufschläger (1999), Bayern-Report Heft 8 (in German), Fürstenfeldbruck: Hermann Merker Verlag, ISBN 3-89610-049-1
Karl Ernst Maedel, Alfred B. Gottwald: Deutsche Dampflokomotiven. Die Entwicklungsgeschichte. Transpress Verlag, Stuttgart 1994/1999, ISBN 3-344-70912-7, S. 211