Книга: Bavarian D XI

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Bavarian Class D XI engines were branch line saturated steam locomotives built for service with the Royal Bavarian State Railways . The state railway procured 139 examples between 1895 and 1912 it was the most numerous Bavarian branch line locomotive. Both Krauss and Maffei supplied three prototypes each and both were later involved in the production batches. Eight locomotives of the same type were supplied by Krauss in 1900 to the Lokalbahn AG, which later sold them to the Bavarian state railway, where they were given the numbers 2507 to 2512. A further three locomotives were supplied by Krauss to the South German Electric Branch Lines that was taken over in 1904 by the LAG again these locomotives were sold to the state railway. They were given the numbers 2764-2764. These machines were designated as Class PtL 3/4 under the new classification scheme, but did not differ significantly from the newer Class D XI engines. Another five PtL 3/4 were procured by the state railway in 1914 and given the numbers 2783-2787.