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TILLIG : A 2-10-2 T FROM THE HARZ RAILWAY

This time, Tillig has decided to reproduce one of the three prototypes of those mythical engines from the Harz meter gauge railway, in former East Germany.

They have opted for N° 99 222, the only surviving locomotive from the series of three built for the Thuringia railway by BMAG Schwarzkopf in 1930. Both its sister-engines were sent to Norway in 1942, and never returned (223 was scrapped in 1947, and 221 in 1953).

This locomotive ran on the Eisfeld – Schönbrunn line, before being transferred in 1967 to the Harz system. At Wernigerode works, it had to be fitted with vacuum brakes in addition to air brakes to be able to run on the network. Designed on the basis of the Saxon 2-10-2 T 75cm gauge class 99 731 to 762, fitted with the same boiler as the standard gauge BR 81 class 0-8-0 T, these 700hp engines, weighing in at 65.8 tons, can haul up to 1100 tons on the level, or 195 tons on