The Palatine T 3 was a class of goods train tank locomotives with a C n2t wheel arrangement in service with the Palatinate Railway. They had no running axles. They were incorporated into the Deutsche Reichsbahn as DRG Class 891 with operating numbers 89 101–121. Their design was based on that of the Bavarian D V.
History Compared to other railway companies, the Palatinate Railway only procured C couplers for service on branch lines and shunting from 1889 to 1905. In Bavaria locomotives of Class C V had been in operation for 10 years.
Procurement Over a total of 16 years, the firm of Maffei acquired a total of 27 engines in four batches.Spielhof, Lokomotiven der Pfälzischen Eisenbahnen, pages 138 ff The first four machines - procured in 1889/1990 - were bought as replacements for engines that had been decommissioned and they were given their numbers. The next procurement series from 1898 for seven engines and the batch ordered from 1900 for eleven engines received new, sequential numbers. In the 1902 batch of a further four locomotives, there was another re-used of previous operating numbers. In 1905 another engine with a new, consecutive number was delivered.
All the engine were given names as well as operating numbers as was usual with the Palatinate Railways at that time.
Fate Twenty one units were taken over by the Deutsche Reichsbahn, who renamed them the Class 89.1 in their numbering scheme. In 1920, six locomotives - numbers 207, 208, 246, 252, 255 and 285Spielhoff, Lokomotiven der Pfälzischen Eisenbahnen, page 141 - had to be handed over to the Saarland Railways.
In a list of locomotives in the French occupation zone from 1948, eight engines are allotted to the EAW Kaiserslautern.Lok Magazin, Issue 94, 1974, page 82 The last unit was retired in 1953 from the Deutsche Bundesbahn.
Locomotive numbers Details of the individual engines and their numbering are as follows:Mühl (1982), pp. 160 ff. Built Numbers by epoch Additionalinformation Lfd.Nr. Builder Year ofmanufacture Worksnumber Pal. Rly / R. Bav. St. Rly DRG op. no. Retired Rly No. Name (initial) (final)1Maffei1889150370OHRENBERG89 10789 101< 19312150471REHBERG89 10889 102< 193131890154113HOMBURG89 10189 103< 19314154271ZWEYBRUECKEN89 10289 10427.8.19475Maffei18981906202EINOED89 10989 10527.8.194761907203WUERZBACH89 11089 106< 193571908204HASSEL89 11189 10711.4.194781909205BIERBACH89 11289 108< 193391910206ALTSTADT89 11389 10911.4.1952101911207CONTWIG< 1930Transferred to Saar Rly in 1920, new op. no. 6101, 111912208DELLFELD< 1932Transferred to Saar Rly in 1920, new op. no. 6102, 12Maffei19002085246BAYRFELD< 1928Transferred to Saar Rly in 1920, new op. no. 6103, 132086247BIEBERMUEHLE89 11489 11027.8.1947142087248BLICKWEILER89 11589 111< 6/1953152088249BOEHL89 11689 112Wartime casualty162089250EISENBERG89 11789 113Wartime casualty172090251HOCHSTADT89 11889 114Wartime casualty182091252LANGMEIL< 1929Transferred to Saar Rly in 1920, new op. no. 6104192092253TIEFENTHAL89 11989 11514.11.1952202093254RAMMELSBACH89 12089 1161.11.1946212094255RAMSTEIN< 1931Transferred to Saar Rly in 1920, new op. no. 6105222095256RODALBEN89 12189 117< 11/195323Maffei1902224757WACHENHEIM89 10389 1181.6.195324224859WEIDENTHAL89 10489 1199.11.195325224964FORST89 10589 1201.6.195326225066POTZBERG89 10689 1219.11.195327Maffei19052389285WALDFISCHBACH< 1930Transferred to Saar Rly in 1920, new op. no. 6106
References
Literature Mühl, Albert (1982). Die Pfalzbahn: Geschichte, Betrieb und Fahrzeuge der pfälzischen Eisenbahnen. Theiss. 252 pp.
Heinz Schnabel: Deutsches Lok-Archiv: Lokomotiven bayrischer Eisenbahnen. transpress, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-344-70717-5