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BBÖ Class 81

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Power type
  
Steam

Total produced
  
73

UIC class
  
1′E h2

Build date
  
1920–1923

Configuration
  
2-10-0

BBÖ Class 81

Builder
  
Wiener Neustädter (14) Floridsdorf (40) StEG (16) Krauss (3)

The steam locomotive BBÖ  81 was a class of heavy freight 2-10-0 locomotves with the Federal Railway of Austria (BBÖ).

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History

The class was built in 1923 by the Wiener Neustädter Lokomotivfabrik. Following the annexation of Austria in 1938, they were incorporated within Deutsche Reichsbahn Class 58.

Preservation

Two examples are preserved: one, JŽ 29-010 at the Slovenian Railway Museum, Ljubljana, and the other, ÖBB 58.744, at the Heizhaus, Strasshof.

References

BBÖ Class 81 Wikipedia