Px38

Px38-805

Type and origin Power type steam Builder Fablok Serial number 727 Build date 1938

Specifications Configuration 0-8-0 UIC class Dn2t+t Gauge 600 mm (1 ft 11 ^5⁄8 in) Driver dia. 650 mm (26 in) Wheelbase 2,400 mm (7 ft 10 in) Length 6,220 mm (20 ft 5 in) (9,920 mm or 32 ft 7 in with tender) Width 1,800 mm (5 ft 11 in) Height 3,000 mm (9 ft 10 in) Fuel type coal Tender cap 1,500 kg (3,300 lb) coal, 3.5 m^3 (770 imp gal) water Boiler pressure 13 kg/cm² Cylinders 2 Cylinder size 285 mm (11.2 in) bore, 350 mm (14 in) stroke Valve gear Heusinger Loco brake Steam and hand

Performance figures Maximum speed 30 km/h (19 mph)

Career Nicknames Leon Current owner Narrow Gauge Railway Museum in Wenecja Disposition active

Px38-805 is a preserved Polish 600 mm (1 ft 11 ⁵⁄₈ in) narrow gauge steam locomotive built by Fablok in Chrzanów, Poland. It was the only locomotive of Px38 PKP class, and one of three locomotives W5A type.

In 1929 the First Locomotive Factory in Poland (Fablok) designed a W5A type locomotive, basing upon its earlier W2A design (Tx26-427), and manufactured two specimen (later designed as PKP Px27 class). In 1938 another one slightly differing locomotive was order by Września County Railway (Wrzesińska Kolej Powiatowa).^[1] The locomotive, factory no. 727, was given a stock number 5 (W.K.P. N°5).^[1] The locomotive survived World War II, on its railway. After the war county railways were taken over by the Polish State Railways (PKP) and in 1947 the locomotive was given a designation Px4-805, in 1961 changed to Px38-805^[1] (P - locomotive with a tender, x - D axle arrangement, '38 design year).

In following years the locomotive was used on most of PKP 600 mm railways. From 1958 it stationed for a longer term in Myszyniec, and from 1973 in Białośliwie.^[1] From 1983 it has been stationed in Żnin, currently on a museum railway of Narrow Gauge Railway Museum in Wenecja. The locomotive has a nickname Leon, in a memory of a Narrow Gauge Railway Museum guide Leon Lichociński.^[2]

References

1. Pokropiński, B. (2016), p. 38-42, 204
2. J. Kurowska-Ciechańska, A. Ciechański: Koleje. Carta blanca: Warsaw, 2008, p. 72 (Polish)

• Pokropiński, Bogdan (2015). Parowozy wąskotorowe produkcji polskiej. [Narrow gauge steam locomotives of Polish production] (in Polish). Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Komunikacji i Łączności. ISBN 978-83-206-1963-8..