Deutsche Reichsbahn / Deutsches Reichsbahn 0-8-0 Locomotives in Germany

Class BR 81 (Locobase 4327)

Data from [] (June 2002).

John Oxlade's [] notes this is an Einheitslok (in this case for switching), one of a series of standard locomotive designs. Tonnage rating was 1,785 tons on the level at 40km/h (25 mph).

According to the Fleischmann locomotive model website -- [] (visited 11 April 2004) -- the design offered good springing and compensation and was very popular with its crews. Even so, only 10 were built, all in 1928. Plans to add to the class in 1939 were overtaken by the Third Reich's entry into World War II. All survived the war and served until being displaced by diesels in the 1960s.

Class K44.8 /99 33 (Locobase 15324)

Data from Albert Gieseler's website at [] . LKM works numbers were 16501-16511 in 1950 and 30011-30021 in 1951-1952.

In 1961, the East German Railways' shop at Gorlitz modified the pair by fitting superheated boilers; see Locobase 13804.

When the DDR converted to diesel, the 99 333 was scrapped. The 99 332 was preserved for static display at the BSderbahn Molli, a museum railroad in Mecklenberg-Western Pomerania. And the 99 331 is operational in a backup role.