Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Mallet locomotive


American made and manufactured for mountain areas in western java.
This locomotive serie DD50-51, DD50 series came eight units in 1916 (reportedly never used and without trace ...) who came 12th Serie DD51 units in 1919 (there is also no traces ...)
This locomotive was originally planned for the Jakarta-Bandung route-Kroja the extreme mountainous region ...
2-8-8-0 mallet locomotives are three series (DD50, DD51 and DD52), last serie in late 70s still had allegedly seen in Purwakarta, Sidotopo and Madison ...

2 comments:

  1. Hi,

    Do you have a scan of this picture for me? It looks like the locos number is SS 1215 and I happen to have a worksplate of this specific loco...

    best wishes,

    Eelco Storm

    eelco.storm(a)gmail.com

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  2. this is a great steam locomotiv ... :)

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