Saechsischen 0-4-2 Locomotives in Germany

Class IIIb T / BR 98 72 (Locobase 9577)

Data from [], last accessed 28 September 2008, supplemented by []

These little tanks were delivered in two batches. The first set of orders were produced by two companies. Schwartszkopff delivered a set to the Muldenthal-Eisenbahngesellschaft. At the same time SSchsische Maschinenfabrik (the renamed Hartmann) delivered identical engines to Chemnitz-Aue-Adorfer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (ChAA).

All of them had tall steam domes in front of squared-off Belpaire fireboxes and tall inversely tapered stacks. Weight grew steadily with the delivery of each pair of locomotives. The first two weighed in in 1875 at 29,300 kg adhesive weight, 38,700 kg engine weight and had slightly larger firebox heating surfaces of 6.55 sq m.

Soon after these orders, the two railways were absorbed by the state railway system. In late 1880s, the SStE added 20 locomotives to the stud in three separate orders in the 1889-1892 period.

When the DRG stood up in 1925, it retained 9 of the IIIb which it then designated BR 98 72. All of these had been retired by the end of the 1920s, although one served in an industrial setting (RAW Leipzig) until 1934.

Although 9 were taken into the DRG