Steam locomotive class 354.1 of the Czechoslovak State
Railways.
Mold variant !
■ Boiler with single dome and Giesl ejector
■ Free-standing pipes
■ Metal buffer
■ Finely-detailed wheels with low wheel flanges
■ Drive and coupling rods made from fine cast metal
■ Driver’s cab and engine lighting installed, switchable in digital
mode
In the year 1912, the company then named k.k. priv.
Südbahn-Gesellschaft put in an order for a tender locomotive
required for their heavy-duty passenger train service as a
replacement for the class 229 locomotives, which were no longer up
to the task. In response, the locomotive factory of the
Staats-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft developed the series 629 hot
steam-type as the first tender locomotive in the world with the
2’C1‘ Pacific axle arrangement. The first class 629 locomotive was
delivered to the Südbahn-Gesellschaft in 1913, and 14 more in a
total of three deliveries followed within the next two years. The
exceptionally good performance of this class caused the
imperial-royal state railways to purchase 25 almost identical
locomotives up until the end of the monarchy’s reign in 1918.
Fifteen Südbahn engines and ten state railway engines remained in
Austria following the end of the First World War. 15 of these had
to be given to the newly-founded CSD, where they were designated as
the 354.121 to 135.
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