Bavarian State 2-4-4 Locomotives in Germany

Class D XII / BR 73.0 (Locobase 5931)

Data from Christian Lindecke's website [] (visited 28 Nov 2003) (translated by Google); additional data from US Military Railway Service Equipment Data Book -- German Locomotives supplied by Allen Stanley from his extensive Rail Data Exchange in March 2004 and from "New Locomotives for the Bavarian State Railways", Locomotive Magazine, Vol V (March 1900), pp. 37-38.

These tanks ran in the Munich area and were apparently ideally suited to the duty because the Pfalzbahn procured 31 more from 1900 to 1903 and the Elass-Lothringen (Alsace-Lorraine) railway bought 37 from 1903-1912 (see Locobase 15589).

In 1907, another 9 locomotives - now designated Pt 2/5 N -- that put another 1.3 metric tons on the drivers were built to the same dimensions.

By the time the DRG began absorbing locomotive classes, 94 locomotives remained from the Bavarian stock.and these engines continued to serve for several more years. Retirements began in 1931 and were completed by 1936.

The Pt 2/5 N class also came over as DRG 73 131-73 139 as well as DRG 73 201-202. Like the earlier engines, they left service in 1931-1935.

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Class Pt 2/5 H // BR 73.2 (Locobase 5932)

Data from Christian Lindecke's website [] (visited 28 Nov 2003) (translated by Google), supplemented by [], last accessed 14 may 2011.

This was something of an experiment in which the K.Bay.Sts.B tried superheating the basic, and quite successful, D XII tank locomotive.

It was too little engine for increasing traffic demands so it remained a one-only display piece (first shown at the 1906 Nuremburg exhibition). The larger cylinders meant the boiler was increasingly hard pressed and the factor of adhesion had dropped into the slippery range.

Even so, the DRG granted the locomotive its own class and number DRG 73 201. Not until 1933 did the BR 73 2 leave service.