Product Features and Details
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Chassis, water tanks, boiler and driver’s cab in die-cast zinc
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Metal reversing gear
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Maxon Motor
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Loudspeaker close to cylinder
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Traindriver and fireman ind driver's cab
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Spring buffers
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Finest metal spoked wheels
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Fine engraved rivets
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True-to-epoch lighting, multipart lamp housing
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Finest paintwork and printing
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Illuminated driver's cab
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NEM-standard short-coupling
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21-pole interface
After the payments as a result of the lost First World War, 358 locomotives of Prussian Class T 11 were still included in the official renumbering plan of the DRG. These were reclassified as 74.0-3 and were allocated the serial numbers 001 – 358. They were used throughout the territory of the former Preußische Staatsbahn – for the traditional suburban services and in mixed service on secondary lines. To counteract the lack of powerful passenger train locomotives after the end of the war, a total of 35 engines were converted to superheated steam from 1923 onwards and were fitted with Schmidt-type smoke tube superheaters.
On trial runs, 74 046 achieved a coal saving of up to 37 % compared with their saturated steam sister 74 003. The converted locomotives initially ran regularly again on the urban railway in Berlin. Only with the increasing electrification of the urban railway network were many of the Berlin T 11 moved to shunting service on the numerous nearby freight train depots in Berlin. Further converted T 11s were allocated to RBD Oldenburg – and they are also known to have been used at Bw Stralsund, which belonged at that time to RBD Stettin. When the „small“ unit locomotives were put into service from the 1930s onwards and due to the decrease in traffic caused by the global economic crisis, it was increasingly possible to dispense with the T 11s and many of the older engines were decommissioned. At the end of 1935 there were still 158 T 11s in the fleet of the DRG.
