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SHM 26

Prototype history

1938. An NS 6200 towing LTM locomotives and rolling stock to Dotremont's after the goodbye party in Maasticht. The first LTM locomotive in line is de LTM51 Garratt, the others are the Hanomags B-couplers. After completing my NS 6200 and this SHM 26 I could partially recreate the scene.

The Hanomags 21-30, 31-35

These locomotives were ordered for operation on the standard gauge lines of the Limburg Tramway Company (LTM). They served on the lines Maastricht-Vaals and Roermond-Sittard and its four branches. They were supplied by Hanomag in two batches in 1922 and 1925.

They were relative "muscle cars" as they needed to operate on a "mountainous" line, the Maastricht line being laid out in the hills of Limburg with relatively steep gradients. They were the heaviest 0-4-0 tramway locomotives of the Netherlands. They performed well and could easily go faster than the designated speed limit. Yet, in hindsight, lighter locos would have sufficed.

The engines showed every mark of the Verhoop design like its feedwater system with Verhoop pump, vacuum brake preheater, smokebox feedwater heater and water treater.

The locos 21 and 34 collided head on at Wahlwiler on July 14,1935 resulting in heavy damage on both engines. The already strained finances led to the decision not to repair the locos and they were scrapped soon thereafter.

Twelve engines were sold to Dotremont metal traders at the cessation op operation on the line Maastricht-Vaals in 1938. One loco was sold to the State Mines directly and two others were acquired from Dotremont.

All numbers

21 1935 scrapped after collision
22 1938 Dotremont
23

1938 Dotremont

1941 SM no 59

1942 Scrapped
24 1938 Dotremont
25 1938 Dotremont
26 1938 Dotremont; see detailed history
27 1938 Dotremont
28

1938 Dotremont

1940 SM no 58

1946 Scrapped
29 1938 Dotremont
30 1938 Dotremont
31

1938 Dotremont

1938 Stationairy boiler

1942 NS no 8310

1947 Zuid-Nederlandse Spiritusfabriek

32 1938 Dotremont
33 1938 SM no 55, 1946 scrapped
34 1935 scrapped after collision
35

1938 Dotremont;

1948 Havenbedrijf "De Rietlanden" no 3

1964 Scrapped

No 26

No 26 was sold to Dotremont. After some time it was sold to a German company and via various other mean time jobs it was bought back into the Netherlands by the Tramway Foundation in 1972. After a thorough restauration it re-entered service in 1972, numbered 21. This loco was actually a composition of the frame of 26 and the boiler of 21. The frame of 21 was scrapped. During its 2000 rebuild it was soon dicovered and it was numbered correctly after its frame number, 26. The loco was returned to its original state as much as possible. It received a new cab, a new boiler and of course new number plates.

 
1922 In service at LTM
1938 Dotremont then resold as industry locomotive to Germany
1949 Out of service at Klöckner & Co, Germany
1954 Operational at SC AG Stürzelberg, Germany
1972 Via Tramway Foundation to SHM
1974 Restored and operational
2000 Restored and operational, new boiler