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BLE 44
DRB 79 001 (2nd)

Type and origin
Power type	Steam
Builder	Krupp
Serial number	1423
Build date	1934
Total produced	1

Specifications
Configuration:
• Whyte	2-8-2T
• UIC	1′D1′ h2t
Gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Leading dia.	900 mm (2 ft 11+3⁄8 in)
Driver dia.	1,350 mm (4 ft 5+1⁄8 in)
Trailing dia.	900 mm (2 ft 11+3⁄8 in)
Wheelbase	10,250 mm (33 ft 7+1⁄2 in)
• Drivers	1,650 mm (5 ft 5 in) × 3
• Trailing	2,650 mm (8 ft 8+1⁄4 in) both ends
Length	13,525 mm (44 ft 4+1⁄2 in) over buffers
Height	4,050 mm (13 ft 3+1⁄2 in)
Axle load	14.8 tonnes (14.6 long tons; 16.3 short tons)
Adhesive weight	59.1 tonnes (58.2 long tons; 65.1 short tons)
Loco weight	88.3 tonnes (86.9 long tons; 97.3 short tons)
Fuel capacity	4 tonnes (3.9 long tons; 4.4 short tons)
Water cap.	11,000 L (2,400 imp gal; 2,900 US gal)
Firebox:
• Grate area	2.375 m (25.56 sq ft)
Boiler:
• Pitch	4,675 mm (15 ft 4 in)
• Tube plates	4,700 mm (15 ft 5 in)
Boiler pressure	14 kg/cm (1.37 MPa; 199 psi)
Heating surface:
• Firebox	10.9 m (117 sq ft)
• Tubes	56.0 m (603 sq ft)
• Flues	48.0 m (517 sq ft)
Superheater:
• Heating area	49.5 m (533 sq ft)
Cylinders	Two
Cylinder size	570 mm × 660 mm (22+7⁄16 in × 26 in)

Performance figures
Maximum speed	75 km/h (47 mph)

Career
Operators	Brunswick State Railway Deutsche Reichsbahn Deutsche Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft [de] (Braunschweig-Schöninger Eisenbahn [de] / Frankfurt-Königsteiner Eisenbahn [de] / Teutoburger Wald-Eisenbahn [de])
Numbers	BLE: 44 DRB: 79 001 (2nd) DEG: 261
Retired	March 1973

Locomotive No. 44 of the Brunswick State Railway Company (Braunschweigische Landes-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, BLE) was a tank locomotive for mixed passenger and goods traffic. The locomotive, built in 1934 by Krupp, had a 2-8-2T wheel arrangement and a two-cylinder superheated engine. Leading and trailing wheels were housed in a Bissel bogie. Rather unusual for such a locomotive were the smoke deflectors which were attached directly to the side tanks and extended as far as the front buffer beam.

After the takeover of the BLE by the Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1938, the engine was given the running number 79 001, re-using a number previously given to a Saxon XV HTV that had been retired in 1933.

The engine survived the Second World War and was sold to the Deutsche Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft [de] (DEG), and sent to their Braunschweig-Schöninger Eisenbahn [de] (BSE) in 1947. It was transferred to the Frankfurt-Königsteiner Eisenbahn [de] (FKE) in 1949, the Teutoburger Wald-Eisenbahn [de] (TWE) in 1960, and then returned to the FKE in 1966. It was retired there in 1973.

The running number 79 001 was allocated in 1951 to the former French locomotive, 1-242.TA.602, which had ended up in German hands after the war.

References

Hütter, Ingo (2021). Die Dampflokomotiven der Baureihen 60 bis 91 der DRG, DRB, DB, und DR (in German). Werl: DGEG Medien. pp. 247–248. ISBN 978-3-946594-21-5.
Weisbrod, Bäzold, Obermayer: Das große Typenbuch deutscher Dampflokomotiven. Transpress Verlag ISBN 3-344-70751-5
Weisbrod, Manfred (1991). Dampflokomotiven deutscher Eisenbahnen, Von Privatbahnen zur DRG (EFA 1.5) (in German). Düsseldorf: Alba. pp. 102–104, 241. ISBN 3-87094-139-1.

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