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2 unusual facts about DRG Class 99.22


DRG Class 99.22

Locomotive 99 222 remained on duty until 1966 on its original route, but when it became clear that the end was nigh, it transferred to the Harz and is in service today on the network of the Harz Narrow Gauge Railways (Harzer Schmalspurbahnen or HSB) between Nordhausen, Quedlinburg and Wernigerode.

They were built and deployed for the railway line from Eisfeld to Schönbrunn.


DRG Class 99.19

They were based on a Saxon VI K prototype that already ran on Württemberg's 750mm routes and replaced some ancient Klose locomotives that worked the metre gauge route between Altensteig and Nagold.

Engine number 99 191 was redeployed on 1 April 1944 to work the line between Eisfeld and Schönbrunn.

DRG Class 99.21

The only example of the German DRG Class 99.21 steam locomotive was built for the Wangerooge Island Railway on Wangerooge, one of the German-owned Friesian islands in the North Sea.

DRG Class 99.73–76

The first series of 13 locomotives was built by the Sächsische Maschinenfabrik, previously Richard Hartmann, in Chemnitz.

At the outset single locomotives were even used in the Thumer Netz and in Wilsdruff.


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