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DRG Class 64
BR 64 518

Type: German Passenger Train Tank Engine
Producer: Arn. Jung, Lokomotivfabrik, Jugenthal, Germany
Numeration: DRG 64 001-520
Number photo-train: DRG 64 518
Fabrication No. photo-train: 9268
Building year photo-train: 1940
Quantity: 520 (built) ~20 (preserved 2010)
Manufacturing years: 1928-1940
Rejection/Retired: 1975
Wheel arrangement US: 2-6-2
Axle arrangement German: 1’C1’h2t
Gauge: 1.435 meters
Length over buffers: 12.4 meters
Service weight: 74.9 tons (001-510) 75.2 tons (511-520)
Empty weight: 58.5 tons
Adhesive weight: 45.5 tons
Axle load: 15.3 tons
Top Speed: 90 km/h (for-/backward)
Driving wheel diameter: 1500 mm
Leading wheel diameter: 850 mm
Trailing wheel diameter: 850 mm
Induced Power: 950 PSi
Number of cylinders: 2
Cylinder bore: 500 mm
Piston stroke: 660 mm
Boiler Overpressure: 14 bar
Grate area: 2.04 m2
Superheater area: 37.34 m2
Evaporative heating area: 104.48 m2
Water capacity: 9 m3
Fuel capacity: 3 tons coal

Former Operators: Deutsche Reichsbahn (DR), Deutsche Bahn (DB)
Operator (2010): [link] (Verein Hitorischer Eisenbahnen Emmental (VHE) )
Owner (2010): [link] (Verein Hitorischer Eisenbahnen Emmental (VHE) )
Home (2010): Train depot Huttwil, Switzerland

Train History: DRG 64 518
1941 Bringing into service by DR at Bw Weiden
1943 Bw Passau
1946 Bw Landshut
1946 Bw Kirchenlaibach
1949 Bw Plattling
1950 Bw Rosenhein
1950 Bw Murnau
1950 Bw Rosenheim
1961 Bw Tübingen
1972 Retired by DB
1972 Sold to EUROVAPOR, rests in Tübingen
1980 Transfer to Huttwil, reconditioning
1981 Service for Steamride, at Rails from EBT/VHB/SMB
1998 Transfer into posession of VDB
2005 VDB changes into VHE

Location: Huttwil Sumiswald, Switzerland
Note: DRG 64 518 at the 100 year Ramsei-Sumiswald-Huttwil-Bahn Festival Interlaken. One of six operating engines.
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OLYMPUS CORPORATION
Model
C750UZ
Shutter Speed
1/100 second
Aperture
F/5.6
Focal Length
6 mm
ISO Speed
50
Date Taken
Jun 1, 2008, 4:35:15 PM
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It amazes me...how engines manage to look so colorful, when engines from a different place with an extremely similar paint job can seem so grimy when compared. Then again, it's likely to be mostly because I'm more used to it.