Steam locomotive of CFL

Steam locomotive of CFL

The national railway row 42 (also as the second war railroad engine called) originated from the consideration that the application of the class 52 with her 15 Mp axle load on numerous would be too uneconomical for Mp 17-18 axle load to developed distances. The German imperial traffic ministry required the development of a heavier and more efficient war railroad engine in January, 1942. After protracted preliminary works one decided on one of the row 52 similar, substantially simplistic, nevertheless heavier design. One renounced the different constructive simplifications which hadn’t proved themselves with the class 52.

The buying of twenty CFL locomotives in Austria caused some whirl in Luxembourg. In October, 1948 the general manager of the CFL went to Vienna to check the machines and to negotiate about the purchase price. The whole matter ran then quite clouded in secrecy. To attain clarification about the railroad engines standing in a queue for the sales, the land association of the Luxembourgian railway employees turned in October, 1948 to the colleagues of the Austrian association of labour unions. The Luxembourgian trade union feared because that wanted to acquire the CFL old, put down machines.

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