DRG Class 99.22

Class 99.22
Number(s) 99 221–223
Quantity 3
Manufacturer Schwartzkopff
Year(s) of manufacture 1931
Wheel arrangement 2-10-2
Axle arrangement 1'E1' h2t
Type K 57.10
Gauge 1,000 mm
Length over buffers 11,636 mm
Height 3.650 mm
Width 2.550 mm
Overall wheelbase 8,700 mm
Empty weight 50.2 t
Service weight 65.8 t
Adhesive weight 50.5 t
Top speed 40 km/h
Starting tractive effort 102.97 kN
Coupled wheel diameter 800 mm
Driving wheel diameter 1,000 mm
Carrying wheel diameter 550 mm
No. of cylinders 2
Cylinder bore 430 mm
Piston stroke 400 mm
Boiler Overpressure 14 bar
Grate area 1.60 m²
Radiative heating area 6.05 m²
Superheater area 24.50 m²
Evaporative heating area 64.20 m²
Water capacity 4.66 m³
Fuel 2.5 t coal
Parking brake counterweight brake
Locomotive brakes vacuum-controlled compressed-air brake *
Train brakes originally K-P m.Z. and Schleifer driver's brake valve.
Hardy vacuum brake with auxiliary brake. *
KE-P m.Z. **
Couplers Janney centre buffer couplings
Features * from 1967
from 1985

The three engines of DRG Class 99.22 were standard, narrow gauge locomotives (Einheitsloks) in service with the German Reichsbahn. They had operating numbers 99 221 - 99 223.

They were built and deployed for the railway line from Eisfeld to Schönbrunn. During the course of the Second World War, locomotives 99 221 and 99 223 went to Norway. After the end of the war they stayed there and were later scrapped. Locomotive 99 222 remained on duty until 1966 on its original route, but when it became clear that the end was nigh, it transferred to the Harz and is in service today on the network of the Harz Narrow Gauge Railways (Harzer Schmalspurbahnen or HSB) between Nordhausen, Quedlinburg and Wernigerode.

In its time the Class 99.22 was the most powerful of the German narrow gauge locomotives and had Bissel axles. In addition the coal tank tapered toward the back. One feature was the Janney automatic centre buffer coupling. After its transfer to the Harzquerbahn, 99 222 was converted to the normal compensating coupling with central buffer. This conversion can be clearly recognised by the cutouts in the buffer beam.

The locomotives had a Walschaerts valve gear driving the third axle.

On the introduction of the DR's new EDP numbering scheme in 1970 the engine was given operating number 99 7222, which she carries to this day because the HSB has retained the DR numbering from 1970.

The new DR Class 99.23-24 locomotives were built on the basis of the Einheitsloks. Differences in the new engines are the feedwater heater and the bar frame.

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