In 2000, Drobnick won the gold medal and advanced to the World Junior Championships in Geising, Germany, where he finished 5th.
For the hilly line of the Müglitztalbahn from Mügeln to Geising-Altenberg the Sächsische Maschinenfabrik in Chemnitz developed an eight-coupled locomotive which, it was envisaged, would handle this route better that the hitherto deployed Saxon Classes I K and IV K.
Geising |