Steam & Excursion > An unusual engine to restore

In poking about the web, I came across a web site for Bulgarian State Railways. They seem interested in preserving their heritage, and some of it is quite unusual. For instance a type 1-F-2, according to their nomenclature. We would call it a 2-12-4. They are working on Engine number 46.03 (3rd unit in series type 46) which, if I'm reading the page right, was built in the 1930s.

The site can be found here: http://www.railwaymodeling.com/bgrailways/museum/46.03/index.htm and Google Chrome will be nice enough to translate it for you to something that almost seems to make sense in English. If you poke around on that site with all the videos and look for "Bulgarian State Railways - Steam Engine 46.03 type 1-6-2" you will find some images of what appears to be them salvaging the unit from wherever it sat since the fall of the USSR or thereabouts.
 

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I will be looking forward to see this locomotive(on TO). Please share any move data. Thank you wag216

Wow 13 sand lines.  Over here that would be a 2-12-4T



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/23/17 09:40 by tomstp.

I see hints on the drawing that it has three cylinders, does it?

46.01 through 46.12 were built by H. Cegielski in Poznan, Poland in 1931. 46.13 through 46.20 were built by Schwarzkopf in Berlin in 1943. The second batch is indeed three cylinder. There is one locomotive of each batch left. 46.03 and 46.13 are both stored in Sofia. 

Two steam domes?  And, yeah, Tom, what a sanding capability.  Interesting machine.

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> Wow 13 sand lines.  

Looking closely at the image, it looks like there are 16 sand lines, not 13. Per side. Pretty impressive for a measly 12 drivers. :-)

I can't see how it could use more than 12 sand pipes on each side.

Good question. I can only see 12 sand nozzles on the side. But I can clearly count 8 pipes coming off each of the two sand domes. Those side tanks make it hard to figure out wherre the lines run. I'd be inclined to say that the artist just got carried away with drawing sand pipes coming off the domes. But drafstsmen of that age just didn't do things like that. The extra 4 pipes must go somewhere. But where?