The Locomotives of Karel Belčamin 

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Karel Belčamin (1853-1919) was the first product of the RSR's successor grooming policy, still in place today, that was initiated by Marek Luršimonš. Thus it was that Belčamin was able to take over from his boss in 1891 and combine the traditions he had inherited with his own innovative methods. The expansion and reorganisation of the works at Akohniçe was no less important an investment for the RSR than the fleet of excellent locomotives he set on the rails. Unfortunately, Belčamin also inherited his boss's attitude to work, and this was his undoing. Deaf to the advice of his doctors, he literally worked himself to death, being found slumped over his desk one August afternoon in 1919, his pen still in his hand.

	D5	1892		B12	1894		C2A	1895
	C4	1896		C5	1897		C2B	1897
	C2C	1897		C5A	1899		B13	1900
	C6	1900		C5B	1901		BB1	1902
	B9A	1903		B9B	1904		CB1	1904
	D6	1904		C9	1905	Animation in progress	D27	1905
Animation in progress	D28	1905	Animation in progress	E27	1905		B14	1906
	C6AA	1906		B15	1907		D7	1907
	B12A	1908		D2A	1908		C10	1909
	D8	1910		C11	1910		C11A	1910
	D29	1910		E1	1911		CC1	1911
	DD1	1911		DD3	1912		B16	1912
	B16A	1912		C5C	1912		B13A	1913
	D5A	1913		D5B	1913		C12	1913
	C12A	1913		DD2	1913		C13	1915
	D6A	1919		C14	1919		E2	1919
	D9	1919		D10	1919		E3	1919

Please note that dates in red indicate a non-realised design (hence the lack of class designation in some cases). Soon after taking office, Belčamin realised that Luršimonš's simple class letters were running out and reclassified all the existing locomotive stock according to an admirably simple scheme: The number of coupled axles was represented by a letter, i.e. B for four-coupled, C for six-coupled etc, followed by a sequence number; thus C9 was the ninth class of six-coupled locomotive. Belčamin's system only survived during his term of office, being replaced in turn by Bela Šahlmeti. Click here for a list of redesignated locomotive classes.