413701 - New construction: Steam locomotive type P 6, K.P.E.V.
Railway company:
Königl. Preuß. Staatseisenbahn
Epoch: I
Gauge: H0
Elect. system: DC
The machines of
the series P 6 of the Royal Prussian State Railways, K.P.E.V., were
designed as mulit-purpose locomotives. They were supposed to be able to
pull not only passenger trains and freight trains but also express
trains in the hill country. The first locomotive was delivered in 1902
by the company Hohenzollern in Düsseldorf. The machines showed some
distinct features that were considered typical for their designer Robert
Garbe - for example the narrow smoke stack situated way up front and
the special position of the boiler. Despite the in comparison small 1600
mm driving wheel - the prototype had only 1500 mm - the locomotives
were licensed for a top speed of 90 km/h. The vehicles were coupled with
seperate tenders of the series 2'2' T 21,5 (pr) or with the tender
series 3T 16. All in all 275 units were built. After the Second World
War 110 engines had to be given as a form of war reparation to various
countries in Europe. 163 machines of the series 37.0-1 were added to the
stock of the German Reichs Railway (DRG) with the serial number 37
001-163. The locomotives with the number 37 201-206 (since 1937) were P 6
of the Lübeck- Büchener Railway ( (LBE), which differed from the
Prussian locomotives in their design. The few P 6 that remained in
Germany after the Second World War were not put back into service
neither by the Deutsche Bundesbahn nor by the Reichsbahn of the former
DDR and were decommissioned and scrapped by 1950. The P 6 that was
called Oi 1-7 at the Polish State Railway was delivered 1905 as
"Elberfeld 319" and was given to the PKP already after the I.World War.
The locomotive was added to the stock of the DR in 1941 and was
registered as 37 171. After the war the locomotive remained in Poland.
The machine that was decommissioned in 1967 can now be seen in the
railway museum in Warsaw as Oi 1-29 and is the only unit of the Prussian
type P 6.