Bavarian State / DRG 2-8-0 Locomotives in Germany

Class GtL 4/5 / BR 98 11 (Locobase 6035)

Data from Christian Lindecke's website [] (visited 15 May 2004) (translated by Google) and US Military Railway Service Equipment Data Book -- German Locomotives supplied by Allen Stanley from his extensive Rail Data Exchange. See also [], last accessed 14 May 2011.

Adding a trailing truck to the basic GtL 4/4 design (see Locobase 6034 (0-8-2T) and 6036 (the original GtL 4/4) did not work as intended -- the locomotives still rode badly and slowly. So the DRG converted a total of 29 of the GtL 4/4s that the Bavarian had built in the mid-1920s by adding a Bissel truck under the smokebox. The speed limit rose to 55 km/h (34 mph) while the maximum axle loading dropped from 12.2 metric tons to 10.6. This modification met requirements and the sturdy little localbahn engines served for decades, all but one in Bavaria. The last was retired in 1968.