The steam
railbuses of Bavarian Class MCCi were built between 1906–1908 for the
Royal Bavarian State Railways (Königlich Bayerische Staatsbahn) for suburban services in the Munich area. Seven units were produced, the coach bodies being manufactured by
MAN and the engines by
Maffei.
The railbuses had a B'2'
axle arrangement, thus two of the four axles were driven. The engine was technically very similar to that of the four-wheeled Lokalbahn (branch line) locomotives of
Bavarian Class ML 2/2.
In the mid-1920s as the vehicles were taken over by the
Deutsche Reichsbahn, four of the railbuses were converted to electric propulsion and initially classified as the D4i elT and later as ET 85. They were therefore prototypes for the
DRG's Class ET 85s.
Another MCCi was converted to a diesel railbus in 1928 by MAN (VT 865); this did not prove effective however and was retired by the end of the 1920s.
The steam
railbuses of Bavarian Class MCCi were built between 1906–1908 for the
Royal Bavarian State Railways (Königlich Bayerische Staatsbahn) for suburban services in the Munich area. Seven units were produced, the coach bodies being manufactured by
MAN and the engines by
Maffei.
The railbuses had a B'2'
axle arrangement, thus two of the four axles were driven. The engine was technically very similar to that of the four-wheeled Lokalbahn (branch line) locomotives of
Bavarian Class ML 2/2.
In the mid-1920s as the vehicles were taken over by the
Deutsche Reichsbahn, four of the railbuses were converted to electric propulsion and initially classified as the D4i elT and later as ET 85. They were therefore prototypes for the
DRG's Class ET 85s.
Another MCCi was converted to a diesel railbus in 1928 by MAN (VT 865); this did not prove effective however and was retired by the end of the 1920s.