Prussian T 3

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The Prussian Class T 3 steam locomotives procured for the Prussian State Railways were 0-6-0 tank locomotives intended for local mixed traffic and shunting work. Together with the Prussian T 2, they were the first steam locomotives built according to the standard designs. The first units were delivered by Henschel in 1882, and the Prussian State Railway procured the class until 1910. Similar steam locomotives were also built for other customers, with the last one delivered in 1924. In total, more than 1,500 T 3 locomotives and identical locomotives were built. The main purchasers, besides the Prussian State Railway, were primarily small and industrial railways. In the 1920s, a large portion of the locomotives were retired by the newly founded Deutsche Reichsbahn; nevertheless, numerous locomotives remained in service long after the Second World War. The last locomotive – an industrial engine in Poland – was withdrawn in 1988. A total of 29 locomotives have been preserved. Prussian T 3 locomotives and related types were among the most widely distributed, longest-serving, and most successful Prussian locomotives. The T 3 of the Prussian railways primarily included standardized locomotives of the III-4e design, but it also encompassed the less common III-4p design and several other locomotives. In practice, many identical or similar locomotives built for other regional, private, and industrial railways are associated with the class. Although these locomotives were not formally classified as part of the T3 series, they were similar in construction, and some later shared the fate of the machines of the class on other railways, including German railways as well as the Polish State Railways (PKP).