Description
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The Nordhausen-Wernigerode Railroad Company (NWE) placed a series of twelve Mallet locomotives into service between 1897 and 1900, of which nine were built by the firm Jung in Jungenthal and another three were delivered by the Mecklenburg Car Factory Stock Company in Güstrow. These locomotives were very reliable, and with their performance of 255 horsepower and their maximum speed of 30 km/h / 19 mph these 34 metric ton locomotives fulfilled all of the requirements expected of them. However, in World War I six units had to be handed over to the Army Field Railways – they never came back from this service. Another locomotive had to be retired after a serious accident so that the remaining five locomotives were taken over by the DR in 1949 and rostered as road numbers 99 5901 to 99 5905. After new construction locomotives came to the Harz area in the mid-Fifties, the Mallet locomotives went to the Selketal Railroad. Road numbers 99 5904 and 99 5905 were scrapped and the other 3 locomotives remained on the roster. Road numbers 99 5901 and 99 5902 were used for a longer period on the HSB. Presently, these two units – and road number 99 5903 – are in Wernigerode and are no longer operational.
