0-8-0 Steam Locomotives in Russia

Class Gr-001 (Locobase 13805)

Data from the [] datasheet. See also Wikiwand at [], last accessed 11 August 2016, Christian Lindecke's [] at [], last accessed 31 January 2012 and [], last accessed 25 July 2013.

This little eight-coupled design was built by the former Orenstein & Koppel works as reparations for war damages on behalf of the Soviet Union. The first 352 were delivered between 1947 and 1951. Two years later, LKM Babelberg delivered 62 more as industrial engines with four more in 1956 finishing the class.

Although the prototype was tested as a wood-burner, most operated in the Soviet Union as industrial or forestry locomotives and burned coal or sometimes peat.

Soviet industrial locomotives operated into the 1980s. Those retained for operation on the East German Deutsche Reichsbahn (DR) were withdrawn much sooner in 1968. The Mansfelder Bergwerksbahn's two engines--19 and 20--were withdrawn in 1969.

Class unknown (Locobase 11164)

Data from "Locomotive Engines at the Paris Exhibition", The Artizan, Vol II, 4th Series, #2 (11 February 1868), p. 27 and "Sir David Campbell on Railway Apparatus", Reports on the Paris Universal Exhibition 1867, Volume IV (London: George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1868), pp. 497.

Described by Campbell has having valve gear that was "very overhanging," this wood-burner was fitted with an "American sparkcatcher". Its rear three axles were all equalized to each other. The accompanying sketch showed the big diamond stack, the steam dome tucked right behind it, and closely spaced drivers under the boiler.