Pm36

In August 1936, an order for 2 main passenger locomotives was received at the Fablok plant from the Ministry of Transport, so that a streamlined hood was installed on one of them. It was necessary to conduct a comparative test of two locomotives with the same parameters at high speeds and thereby obtain data on the effect of aerodynamic drag ^[1] . The lead Polish designer Kazimierz Zembrzuski (Kazimierz Zembrzuski) led the design. By the end of the summer, the draft of the locomotive, which was given the designation Pm36, was ready. On September 1, the plant began construction of 2 locomotives for the project and in 1937, the day after Easter , both locomotives were built. Both locomotives were almost identical in design. The difference was that the streamlined hood was installed on the Pm36-1 steam locomotive, which made it 3 tons heavier than the Pm36-2. After a short time, the Pm36-1, together with one of the Pt31 locomotives , was sent to the World Exhibition in Paris . At this exhibition, the Pm36 was awarded the Gold Medal, which indicated that the Polish steam locomotive building in quality had already achieved a worldwide level ^[2] .

After the Pm36 locomotives were sent to the Warsaw railway junction , where they served fast trains until 1942 , that is, during the German occupation . After the locomotive Pm36-2 was transferred to Germany for comparison with high-speed German locomotives. The Pm36-1 locomotive, which already had a streamlined hood removed by that time, did not get to Germany, because during one of the flights from Warsaw to Lodz , it had fuse fuses in the boiler (protection against overheating and possible boiler explosion ), because of what was set aside from exploitation. According to Polish data, the locomotive was subsequently sawn by the Germans for scrap . However, according to German sources, the locomotive was actually captured in 1944 by the advancing Soviet troops, as indicated by Soviet sources. According to them, the locomotive received the full designation 18601 and entered the railways of the Byelorussian SSR , where it was operated until the first half of the 1950s.

It is noteworthy that at that time several steam locomotives of the IP series remained on the territory of the Byelorussian SSR (the Germans captured them as trophies in 1941 , but were forced to leave during the retreat). In 1937, one of the representatives of this series (EC20-241) was also presented at the World Exhibition and also won the gold medal, and at the same time the Grand Prix, thereby overtaking Pm36 (despite the fact that the IP was issued 649 pcs., And Pm36 only 2 pcs.). Pm36-1 itself was most likely cut into scrap by the end of the 1950s.

A somewhat different fate was at the second locomotive of the series. After the war, the Pm36-2 returned to Poland and was operated in the locomotive depot of Poznan . Basically, he carried out secondary work, since at that time steam locomotives, designed for speeds of 120 km / h, were not required in this area. In 1965, the steam locomotive was decommissioned and transferred to a museum in Warsaw. In the 1990s, it was decided to return him to work for the maintenance of retro trains. In 1995, the engine was carried out the appropriate repair, after which he entered the locomotive depot Volshtyn . In May 1999, in honor of the 80th anniversary of the Fablok plant, the Pm36-2 steam locomotive carried out a special train on the route Chrzanow - Trzebinia - Chrzanow . In 2003, an experimental trip was carried out in which the engine, designed for a speed of 120 km / h, reached a speed of 130 km / h.

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