kaiserlich-Koeniglichen Oesterreichischen StB 0-8-2 Locomotives in Austria

Class P/ 402/199 (Locobase 8081)

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One small part of the far-flung Austro-Hungarian railway system was the little Trieste-Parenzo narrow-gauge line on the Adriatic coast. The first three Ps (Krauss Linz works numbers 6494-6496) went to this line in 1911 and remained with the railway when it was taken over by the Italians in 1919. At that point they were designated FS 402. The Italians were quite pleased with the doughty little radial tanks and ordered six more from Reggiane in 1922; these were works numbers 114-119.

Meanwhile the Austrian Niederÿstereichischen Landesbahnen (N+LB) narrow-gauge line needed more power, so the OBB ordered 3 more from Krauss Linz (works numbers 1466-1468 -- no word on why the numbering range changed from pre-war order). These had 300-mm (11.81 in) cylinders. These had various fates, the first apparently being lost in World War II, the second ending its days in 1975 on the Gurkthalbahn, and the third eventually gracing a Ljubljana (Izola) museum as of 1986.

Back in Italy, the FS moved seven of the nine tanks to Sicily in 1938 to run on the 950-mm (37.4") gauge Palermo - Corleone - San Carlo railway, which they continued to do until withdrawn in 1957 (1) and 1959 (the other 6).

P4 (the first Reggiane locomotive) remained in the northern Adriatic. The other eventually came to Rome in 1963 and was preserved in a Milan museum in 1967.