The German DRG Class 84s were standard (see ''Einheitsdampflokomotive'') goods train tank locomotives with the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft, Deutsche Reichsbahn. A total of twelve engines were placed into service by the Reichsbahn between 1935 and 1937. The machines were given operating numbers 84 001–012. They were worked on the Müglitz Valley Railway (''Müglitztalbahn'') between Heidenau (Sachsen), Heidenau and Altenberg (Erzgebirge), Altenberg in the Ore Mountains (''Erzgebirge''), for which they were specially designed to negotiate tight curves. They were manufactured by the firms of Berliner Maschinenbau, Schwartzkopff and Orenstein & Koppel. One feature was that they were fitted with Schwartzkopff-Eckhardt II bogies.
In the Second World War many of the engines were damaged and had to be sidelined as a result. The vehicles were taken over by the Deutsche Reichsbahn (East Germany), DR in East Germany after the war. The engines were mainly used between Schwarzenberg, Saxony, Schwarzenberg and Johanngeorgenstadt.
Between 1966 and 1968 all the Class 84 engines were retired apart from one. None, however, has survived.
See also
* List of DRG locomotives and railbuses
References
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Einheitslok Baureihe 84''Müglitztalbahn''
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