Baden VI c

Baden VI c DRG Class 75.4,10–11
Number(s)	DRG 75 401…494, 1001–1023, 1101–1120
Quantity	135
Manufacturer	Karlsruhe, Jung
Year(s) of manufacture	1914–1921
Retired	1969
Wheel arrangement	2-6-2T
Axle arrangement	1'C1' h2t
Gauge	1,435 mm
Length over buffers	12,700 mm
Service weight	76.2 t
Adhesive weight	47.8 t
Axle load	16.4 t
Top speed	90 km/h
Indicated Power	580 kW
Driving wheel diameter	1,600 mm
Leading wheel diameter	990 mm
Trailing wheel diameter	990 mm
Cylinder bore	540 mm
Piston stroke	640 mm
Boiler Overpressure	12 bar
Grate area	2.12 m²
Superheater area	43.02 m²
Evaporative heating area	105.22 m²

The first steam locomotives of the Baden Class VI c were delivered in 1914 by the Maschinenbau-Gesellschaft Karlsruhe for service in southwestern Germany with the Grand Duchy of Baden State Railway (Großherzoglich Badische Staatsbahn).

Design

Their design benefited from experience with the Baden VI b steam engines, but they were a fundamentally different class with a superheater, new running gear with larger wheels and a longer, fixed wheelbase. The boiler was pitched higher, and the double steam dome was done away with along with its connecting pipe.

Service

The Grand Duchy of Baden State Railway procured a total of 135 of these engines between 1914 and 1921 in nine batches. After the end of the First World War, 15 locomotives had to be given away to France and 13 to Belgium as part of the reparations required under the terms of the Versailles Treaty.^[1] The remaining 107 went to the Deutsche Reichsbahn. The lighter units of the first seven series were grouped into DRG Class 75.4, the heavier vehicles with a reinforced locomotive frame of the last two series were designated as DRG Class 75.10-11.

After the Second World War 66 Class VI c engines went into the Deutsche Bundesbahn, where they were stationed at various locomotive depots including Freiburg, Offenburg, Radolfzell, Singen, Waldshut, Karlsruhe and Villingen.^[2] In 1967 the last one serving with the Bundesbahn, number 75 1118, was retired.^[3] The Deutsche Reichsbahn in East Germany still had some of these engines working at that time.

Preserved

Number 75 1118 is operated today by the Ulmer Eisenbahnfreunde ('Ulm Railway Friends') on the branch line from Amstetten to Gerstetten ^[2] about 20 kilometres northwest of Ulm.

See also

• Grand Duchy of Baden State Railway
• List of Baden locomotives and railbuses

References

1. ↑ Eisenbahn Journal, Band No. 2 Typenblätter, Baureihen 60-98, Archiv 1/2001, Horst J. Obermayer, p 51, paragraph 1.
2. 1 2 www.uef-dampf.de article '75 1118, the Baden VIc'
3. ↑ Eisenbahn Journal, Band No. 2 Typenblätter, Baureihen 60-98, Archiv 1/2001, Horst J. Obermayer, p 51, paragraph 3.

External links

• http://www.uef-dampf.de/
• There is a relevant English-language forum at Railways of Germany

Classes of Baden locomotives and railcars Early locomotives Baden I a (old) I b (old) II (old) III a (old) III b (old) III c (old) IV (old) V (old) VI (old) VII (old) VIII (old) Passenger and express train locomotives Baden II a (old) II a (old) II a II b II c II d III III a III b IV a IV b IV c IV e IV f IV g IV h V a VI P 8 Goods train locomotives Baden VII a VII b VII b VII c VII d VIII a VIII b VIII c VIII e G 12 Tank locomotives Baden I a I b I c I d I e I f I g IV d V b VI a VI b VIc VIII d IX a IX b X X a X b Narrow gauge and electric locomotives and railbuses Baden C A1 A2 A3 133c 121a 133d Grand Duchy of Baden State Railways