? Alco 2-6-2s for Serbia in 1915?

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In 1915 Alco delivered fifteen 2-6-2s (c/n 55448 - 55462) to Europe destined for Serbia becoming SDZ 01 - 015, later JDZ 21-001 - 21-015. Photos of these engines are extremely rare. Do there exist any works photos of these Prairies in the US?

Best wishes from Germany, Helmut

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Perhaps this?

Serbian ALCo’s by Trainiac, on Flickr

Regards, Ed

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Welcome back, @_611

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I second that! Welcome back Helmut!

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Part of the scarcity may be that the locomotives were only months in Serbia before the nation was conquered by the Austrians and Germans.

Were the Mallets used on the copper-mining railroad established privately in the early 1880s?

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Here is the text by Keith Chester (The Narrow-Gauge Railways of Bosnia-Herzegovina) below a photo of one of the Mallets: “The ten Alco 2-6-6-2s of 1915 were by quite a margin the largest 760 mm gauge locos acquired by the SDZ, but the railway had little benefit of them for within a year of their arrival on Serb soil it had ceased to exist and its locomotives had been devided among the Germans, Austro-Hungarians and Bulgarians. Four were taken into kukHB stock but precise details on the allocations of the other six are unknown. This unidentified example was photographed in 1916 at Metovica, the junction for the private railway to the copper mines at Bor. Alfred Luft collection.”

There does exist a fine posed shot of SHS No. 557 most probably in Serbia. Nine of the ten Alcos made it into the JDZ numbering scheme as 93-001 - 93-009.

Also see Serbia Railways - Serbian State Railways (SHS) - 2-6-6-2 s… | Flickr

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Thanks!