HK 94–100

Heeresfeldbahn HK 94–100
Number(s)	HK 94–100 EKB 7sm, HVB 27, SEG/MEG 105, NWE 41^II, RLE 10^II–12^II, Albtalbahn 6^II DR 99 5906
Quantity	7
Manufacturer	Karlsruhe
Year(s) of manufacture	1918
Retired	see text
Axle arrangement	B'B n4vt
Type	K 44.9
Gauge	1,000 mm
Length over buffers	9,400 mm
Height	3,800 mm
Width	2,700 mm
Bogie wheelbase	1,400 mm
Overall wheelbase	4,670 mm
Empty weight	28.5 t
Service weight	36 t
Adhesive weight	36 t
Axle load	8.5 t
Top speed	30 km/h
Indicated Power	270 PSi 200 kW
Starting tractive effort	47.76 kN
Driving wheel diameter	1,000 mm
Valve gear	Heusinger
No. of cylinders	4
LP cylinder bore	425 mm
HP cylinder bore	280 mm
Piston stroke	500 mm
Boiler Overpressure	12 bar / 1.2 MPa
No. of heating tubes	133
Grate area	1.36 m²
Radiative heating area	5.57 m²
Evaporative heating area	67.87 m²
Water capacity	3.77 m³
Fuel	1.1 t coal
Parking brake	counterweight handbrake
Locomotive brakes	compressed air m. Z.
Couplers	buffer and chain coupler (Balancierhebelkupplung)

The HK 94–100 is a series of four-axled, German Mallet locomotives with a 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 ³⁄₈ in) track gauge.

History

In 1918, the Maschinenbau-Gesellschaft Karlsruhe built seven Mallet locomotives for service on railways operated by the German Army, because the existing locomotives they had commandeered were no longer capable enough. To save time older designs were used. The locomotives were accepted into service by the Army Testing Commission For Field Railways (Heeresprüfkommission für Feldbahnen) or HK, and designated as HK 94 to 100. They were used on the Army's military railways known as Heeresfeldbahnen. The locomotives did not continue in military service, however, due to the end of the war, and were handed over to various private railways, some as substitutes for locomotives that had been commandeered for wartime service. Three locomotives went to the Ruhr-Lippe Railways, and one each to the Euskirchen District Railways, the Haspe-Voerde-Breckerfeld Light Railway, the Nordhausen-Wernigerode Railway Company (NWE) and the Alb Valley Railway. Apart from two, they were all retired by the late 1950s/early 1960s.

In 1928, the loco from Haspe was sold to the South German Railway Company for the Zell im Wiesental–Todtnau railway after the original line had been electrified. From there it went in 1968 to the Blonay-Chamby Museum Railway in Switzerland, where, in 2008, in went into service under its old number, 105.^[1][2]

To supplement its Mallet locomotives (NWE Nos. 11 to 22), in 1920 the NWE bought NWE 41^II (there was already a no. NWE 41). This was given number 99 5906 by the East German Deutsche Reichsbahn. In 1955 it was also given to the Selke Valley Railway along with the company's other Mallet locomotives.

The locomotive is externally very similar to the other Mallet engines, only the driver's cab is noticeably different. The loco is in working order and is generally used by the Harz Narrow Gauge Railways on the Selke Valley Railway in charge of scheduled trains.

Design

SEG G 2x2/2 105 at Blonay

The rear set of drivers with their high-pressure cylinders is fixed in the plate frame of the loco. The front set of drivers with their low-pressure cylinders are linked to the rear sets with king pins, the rivetted boiler lies on it with its slide plates (Gleitplatten) Leaf springs at the sides hold the driving gear in a central position. Both driving sets have an inside frame.

The steam is fed to the rear cylinders first and from there it passes along flexible pipes to the front cylinders. All cylinders have flat slide valves and outside Heusinger valve gear with lifting links and Kuhn slides.

The locos have a counterweight handbrake and a steam brake as an auxiliary. Depending on the railway, vacuum or compressed air brakes were later fitted as the train brake.

On the boiler are two sand domes, one for each driving set.

References

1. Loco portrait at the homepage of the Freundeskreis Selketalbahn
2. Homepage of the Blonay-Chamby Museum Railway

• Obermayer, Horst J. (1971). Taschenbuch Deutsche Schmalspur-Dampflokomotiven. Stuttgart: Franckh. ISBN 3-440-03818-1.
• Röper, Hans; Becker, Helmut; Dill, Werner; Zieglgänsberger, Gerhard (1992). Die Harzquer- und Brockenbahn. 3 (expanded ed.). Berlin: Transpress Verlagsgesellschaft. ISBN 3-344-70747-7.

External links

• Data sheet 5906 of the Freundeskreis Selketalbahn