Narrow Gauge steam locomotives

Of course there are also locomotives for narrower gauges for example trains that operate on fields (the most current gauge with field railroads is 600mm, for example with the MPSB or the peattrain in the high bog) or other smaller roads (many examples are in Saxony, for example, the "Lößnitzdackel" which is actually called "Lößnitzgrundbahn" and has a gauge of 750 mms). Also a lot of museum railroads are narrow gauge railroads (e.g., the DEV, the first museum railroad of Germany, or the steam narrow gauge railroad Mühlenstroth in Gütersloh). The narrow gauge locomotives were in the beginning of course steam locomotives. But - as with the "big" road also is so - these should be substituted after some time with new locomotives, with small-time roads these were diesel locomotives. However, even if one has not properly folded a lot of tried. The only more or less successful small-time diesel locomotive is the class V 51/V 52 which has gone earlier in the South German space; today one is of it with the " raving Roland " on Rugen in use an application. In addition, there were still military field railway diesel locomotives which were built for the 2-nd world war and have transported goods and soldiers to the front. However, by the diesel locomotives it does not have - as already said - properly folded, and thus it kept to it that on most small-time roads furthermore steam locomotives remained in use an application. As already mentioned on top, a lot of small-time roads were in Saxony. It is only logical that the probably best known small-time locomotive also comes from Saxony: Saxon IV K. It is a small, but extremely strong narrow-gauge locomotive which ekes out her existence also even today on many museum roads.

Saxon IV K (Bavarian Broadcasting 9951-60) photo: Jeroen Broekhuijse

Beside IV K there were of course also other Saxon Schmalspurbahndampflokomotivfabrikate, as for example VI K. One calls the standardised design of locomotive of the class 9973-76 affectionately " VII K ". Of course there were not only military field railway diesel locomotives (see supra), but also HF-steam locomotives. In the First World War the so-called "brigade railroad engines", during the second world war, e.g., the HF were this 110 C (HF=Heeresfeldbahn; 110=110 HP; C=Achsfolge C). Here the steam locomotive DEV castle Franz (1,000 mms) is to be seen.

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