Class 108 (Locobase 1196)

Data from [], accessed 13 August 2006 and Maurice Demoulin, Locomotive Actuelle ... (Paris: Librairie Polytechnique Ch.Beranger, 1906), p 230. See also Dr. R. Sanzin, "Die Lokomotiven auf der Intertionalen Austellung in Mailand 1906, 7. 2/4 gekuppelte vierzylindrige Verbund-fschnellzuglokomotive der oesterischen Staatsbahnen ...", Zeitschrift des Oesterreichischen Ingenieur- und Architeckten-Vereines, Vol LVIII Nr. 50 (14 December 1906), p 697-699.

Another in a series of Karl Golsdorf designs, this engine shared with many of the others a high-stepping look conferred by arched splashers over the drivers that accentuated the height of the drivers. The rear arch encompassed both the rear driver and the trailing truck. A brass "pickelhauben" steam dome and conical safety-valve stand on a blued-steel boiler added to the elegance.

Demoulin noted that the cylinders were placed "en batterie", that is in line across the frame, HP inside, LP outside and driving on the front coupled axle. 108s were rated at 220 tonnes trailing load pulled up a 1% grade at 75 km/h (47 mph) at which point the locomotive developed 1,500 hp.

The Wikipedia entry gives details about the origins of this kkStB class. The kkStB itself bought 25 of this design from Bohmisch-Mohravischen Maschinenfabrik, Wiener Neustadt Lokomotivfabrik, Lokomotivfabrik der StEG. In the same period (1903-1908).Wiener Neustadt and StEG delivered 11 more to the Sudbahn. Dr Sanzin's report showed that the BMM engines used 314 fire tubes, which reduced the evaporative heating surface area to 201.28 sq m (2,167 sq ft). External tube diameter in all of the class was 51 mm (1.97").

They were all grouped as class 108 in 1909.

Performance included developing 1,400 continuous horsepower with a peak of 1,600. In tests, the 108 reached 143 km/h (89 mph) although normal rating was 100 km/h.

The kkStB engines went to the CSD after World War One, while the Sudbahn turned its locomotives over to the kkStB in 1923. The latter retired the last of its 11 in 1934 while some of the CSD 275 class until 1948.

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Class IId /308.5/CSD 274.0/PKP Pf12 (Locobase 4700)

Data from the table presented on pages 370, 372 of the Groupe VI. - GTnie civil. - Moyens de transport. DeuxiFme partie. Classes 32 (Tome I), part of the series of Rapports du Jury Internationale of the Exposition Unverselle Internationale de 1900 Paris Exposition, hosted on the website of Le Conservatoire numTrique des Arts & MTtiers ([], Accessed 21 August 2005).

Information supplemented by [], last accessed 2 September 2006. This was the last batch produced to the 308 design. Unlike the earlier engines, these 12 were delivered with the Clench-Golsdorf superheater and only one steam dome. When the kkStB took over the engines, they gave them a separate subclass ID as 308.5.

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Class IId-225 / 308 (Locobase 7808)

Data from by [], last accessed 2 September 2006. Also see the table presented on pages 370, 372 of the Groupe VI. - GTnie civil. - Moyens de transport. DeuxiFme partie. Classes 32 (Tome I), part of the series of Rapports du Jury Internationale of the Exposition Unverselle Internationale de 1900 Paris Exposition, hosted on the website of Le Conservatoire numTrique des Arts & MTtiers ([], Accessed 21 August 2005).

The Wikipedia entry says these were the first Atlantics to be built in Europe and the least powerful of the arrangement to be delivered. Roger Hennessey, in his Atlantic-The Well-Beloved Engine (2002, Tempus, p. 24), calls the design an "Ur-Atlantic" developed by W Rayl on the KFNB, saying it was "...essentially a 4-4-0 raised to a higher power by having a larger firebox than would have been possible without a trailing axle." It had the typical Austrian arrangement of two steam domes, but unlike many the domes were not connected by an external steam pipe. Between the domes was a cubical sandbox. Three were converted to 4-6-0s as Class 227.

In addition to the KFNB's 45 locomotives, Wiener Neustadt supplied 18 to the WarschauvWiener Bahn from 1898-1900.

After World War One, the CSD took 15 as their class 274.0. Poland operated 19, nine from the KFNB and 10 from the WWB, as the Pf 12. The others went to the successor BB+. Only two remained in service when the Third Reich took over Czechoslovakia in 1938, which were designated BR 14.001-14.002.

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Class XVIb / 208 / C(SD 264.4 (Locobase 4699)

Data from [], accessed 12 August 2006. Works numbers were 2957-2964 in 1901

These ONWB cross-compound Atlantics were intended to compete with those of the StEG railway and showed better performance than earlier 4-4-0s. They were credited with 220 tonnes of trailing load at 80 km/h (50 mph).

After World War One, the CSD took them over as class 264.4 and operated some of them until 1937.