The Royal Bavarian State Railways 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 state railways with a ra
Coat of arms of the Royal Bavarian State Railways
Owner's inscription on a goods wagon
The Bavarian Class S 3/6 Locomotive
Bavarian PtL 2/2
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The Class PtL 2/2 locomotives of the Royal Bavarian State Railways were light and very compact superheated steam locomotives for operation on Bavarian branch lines. There were three types in total, of
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…entered service. This was used in pusher service to support trains on the steeper Bavarian inclines. Perhaps the most iconic branch line engine was the Bavarian PtL 2/2 nicknamed the Glaskasten or "glass box". The first ones were built at the Maffei and Krauss locomotive works in Munich in 1906. Their design was radically…
WP Bayerische Pt L 2 2 Bauart 1905
DB 98 307 in Bochum-Dahlhausen (1985)
Model of a PtL 2/2
Bavarian PtL 2/2 (BR 98 307) in the German Steam Locomotive Museum in Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg