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Class T 5 of 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 ...
was a German, goods train, tank locomotive class with five coupled axles and no
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. In 1925 they were absorbed by the Deutsche Reichsbahn as DRG Class 94.0 into their renumbering plan. These engines were bought specifically for the inclines between Pirmasens and Biebermühle. They could reach a speed of 40 km/h on the level with a 1,510 tonne train load, and 30 km/h on an incline of 2%. Overall, however, they were unable to match the power of locomotives from Prussia or Saxony and were retired by 1926. The locomotive which was formerly no. 307 in the Palatinate Railway (DRG No. 94 002) was disposed of to the Eschweiler Mining Union and employed at the
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coal mine, where it was given the name of ''Carl Alexander'' and the number 3; it remained in service there until 1974. Today it is displayed at the Neustadt/Weinstrasse Railway Museum in
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, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.


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Royal Bavarian State Railways The Royal Bavarian State Railways (''Königliche Bayerische Staats-Eisenbahnen'' or ''K.Bay.Sts.B.'') was the state railway company for the Kingdom of Bavaria. It was founded in 1844. The organisation grew into the second largest of the German ...
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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 ...
* List of Bavarian locomotives and railbuses *
List of Palatine locomotives and railbuses This list gives an overview of the locomotives and railbuses of the Palatinate Railway (''Pfalzbahn'') and the Palatine network of the Royal Bavarian State Railways (''Königlich Bayerische Staats-Eisenbahnen''). The Palatinate (''Pfalz'') is ...


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