The locomotives of Palatine Class T 4^I were saturated steam

tank engine A tank locomotive or tank engine is a steam locomotive that carries its water in one or more on-board water tanks, instead of a more traditional tender. Most tank engines also have bunkers (or fuel tanks) to hold fuel; in a tender-tank locomot ...

s operated by the

Palatinate Railway The Palatine Railways (german: Pfälzische Eisenbahnen), often abbreviated to Palatinate Railway (''Pfalzbahn'') was the name of the railway division and administration responsible for all private railway companies in the Bavarian Palatinate fro ...

Krauss Krauss is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alison Krauss (born 1971), American bluegrass musician * Alexander Krauß (born 1975), German politician * Alexis Krauss (born 1985), musician of the noise pop duo Sleigh Bells ...

delivered four of them in 1895 and a further three in 1897. The development of these engines had been based on the second batch of

Bavarian D VIII The Bavarian Class D VIII (''bayerische D VIII'') were saturated steam locomotives with the Royal Bavarian State Railways (''Königlich Bayerische Staatsbahn''). History In 1888, new locomotives were needed for the Freilassing–Berchtesgaden ...

engines and they differed only in a few dimensions: for example, the diameter of the

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and

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was smaller. In addition they had a larger coal tank. In 1908 and 1910 Krauss supplied two batches, each of four locomotives, which were now designated the Palatine D VIII. These differed in having a larger fuel tank and a higher maximum

boiler A boiler is a closed vessel in which fluid (generally water) is heated. The fluid does not necessarily boil. The heated or vaporized fluid exits the boiler for use in various processes or heating applications, including water heating, central h ...

pressure: 13 as opposed to 12 bar. In 1925 the

Deutsche Reichsbahn The ''Deutsche Reichsbahn'', also known as the German National Railway, the German State Railway, German Reich Railway, and the German Imperial Railway, was the German national railway system created after the end of World War I from the regiona ...

took over all 15 locomotives and grouped them together with the

into DRG Class 98.6. The first seven machines were allocated numbers 98 651–657 and the eight newer ones numbers 98 681–688. The first group was retired by 1940, the second survived to join the

Deutsche Bundesbahn The Deutsche Bundesbahn or DB (German Federal Railway) was formed as the state railway of the newly established Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) on 7 September 1949 as a successor of the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (DRG). The DB remained ...

fleet. Nos. 98 682 and 98 686 were the last two units to be retired, in 1950. In 1949 the Augsburger Localbahn bought no. 98 683 and operated it as "no. 10" until 1957.

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