Kittel Dampftriebwagen

Kittel Dampftriebwagen

In 1914/15, the Gandducal Baden State Railways obtained 8 steam railcars to provide passenger services on little used lines. They were provided by Württembergische Maschinenfabrik in Esslingen, which had previously delivered similar railcars to the Royal Württemberg State railways, the Royal Prussian Railway Administration, the Prussian Military Railway at Zossen and other customers. Altogether 35 of these railcars were built between 1905 and 1915 to a design by the Württemberg locomotive superintendet Eugen Kittel. Body and engine had been based upon an earlier steam railcar with a Serpollet type boiler, which had proved unsatisfactory. The vertical smoketube boiler, designed by Kittel stood up well to the demands of steam operation. For the boiler design Kittel even recieved an award by the Society of German Railway Administrations in 1909. The Kittel railcar could be operated by a single person. Its max speed was 60 k/mh forwards and 50 km/h backwards. It could even pull up to three C2i-type light passenger cars.
After the merger in 1920, 25 of these railcars, including all Baden ones were taken over by Deutsche Reichsbahn. They continued to operate in the southwest of Germany. The single railcar owned by the military railways was sold to Switzerland. Some of the sturdy little engines even survived WWII. They were taken over by the newly founded Deutsche Bundesbahn. Based in Freiburg they continued to operate in southern Baden. The last of them were finally retired in 1954. Two ex-Baden and one ex-Württemberg raicar, which had been left in neighboring Alsace at the end of WW II and had been taken over by SNCF were still operational as late as 1955.

Author: Konrad Bernhard

Kittel Dampftriebwagen
art
dt_frontview .jpg 28.69KB
dt_rear.jpg 25.92KB
body
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abteilfenster.texture.txt 61 bytes
abteilfenster.tga 24.04KB
badenwappen.texture.txt 34 bytes
badenwappen.tga 192.04KB
bank_iii_klasse.texture.txt 38 bytes
bank_iii_klasse.tga 6.04KB
bodenblech.texture.txt 33 bytes
bodenblech.tga 12.04KB
dach.texture.txt 27 bytes
dach.tga 812 bytes
deckenleuchte.tga 812 bytes
dtbody.im 619.10KB
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fenster_neu.bmp 12.05KB
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frontfenster.bmp 24.05KB
frontfenster.texture.txt 59 bytes
frontfenster.tga 24.04KB
grau_cabinnen.texture.txt 36 bytes
grau_cabinnen.tga 812 bytes
griffstangen.texture.txt 35 bytes
griffstangen.tga 812 bytes
kabinenboden.texture.txt 35 bytes
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klasse iii.texture.txt 33 bytes
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lokomotivschwarz.texture.txt 39 bytes
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rahmen_schwarz.texture.txt 37 bytes
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rauchkammerschwarz.texture.txt 41 bytes
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schwarz_rahmen.texture.txt 37 bytes
schwarz_rahmen.tga 812 bytes
schwarzgrau.texture.txt 34 bytes
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trittstufen.texture.txt 34 bytes
trittstufen.tga 48.04KB
trittstufen_dunkel.texture.txt 41 bytes
trittstufen_dunkel.tga 48.04KB
umlaufschwarz.texture.txt 36 bytes
umlaufschwarz.tga 812 bytes
wagenkasten.texture.txt 34 bytes
wagenkasten.tga 812 bytes
wagennummer_1000.texture.txt 39 bytes
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• config.txt 6.21KB
• rauch.tfx 404 bytes
• ruherauch.tfx 388 bytes