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LAG Nos. 87 and 88
🇩🇪 Germany ·built by KraussMaffei· from 1937· class of 2 German 2-8-2T locomotives
what is it?
The Bavarian engines with railway numbers 87 and 88 were superheated steam locomotives with the Localbahn AG (LAG). They were the last two engines that the LAG procured because shortly after their delivery in 1937, the company was finally nationalised. The locomotives were largely similar in their design to the TAG 7 locomotive, that had been developed in 1936 by Krauss-Maffei for the Tegernsee Railway AG (Tegernseebahn AG or TAG).
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 89 years ago, in 1937.
- 346 kW is about 4 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 10 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 11.6 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1937
- retired
- 1960
- status
- retired
- number built
- 2
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- builders
- KraussMaffei
- operators
- Lokalbahn AG, Deutsche Reichsbahn, Deutsche Bundesbahn
- top speed
- 70 km/h
- power
- 346 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-8-2T
- length
- 11.6 m
- weight
- 60.8 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1797854, Wikipedia: LAG Nos. 87 and 88 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.