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The best-known and the most produced German war locomotive, or Kriegslokomotive: DRB Class 52. Kriegslokomotiven (German: for "war locomotives", singular: Kriegslokomotive) or Kriegsloks were locomotives produced in large numbers during the Second World War under Nazi Germany.
Hungary, MÁV class 520 – 100 locomotives acquired from the Soviet Union in 1963 and used into the 1980s. Luxembourg, CFL 5600-series – 20 locomotives, half ex-SNCB Type 26, half built by SACM in 1946. [7] Norway, NSB class 63 – 74 locomotives sent during the German occupation and seized post-war. Nicknamed Stortysker ("big German").
As a result, genuine war locomotives (the Kriegslokomotiven) were developed by the Deutsche Reichsbahn. They were sub-divided into wartime steam locomotives (Kriegs-Dampf-Lokomotiven or KDL) and wartime electric locomotives (Kriegs-Elektrolokomotiven or KEL). Examples include the steam classes 42 and 52, as well as the Class E 44 and E 94.
Up to 1967, 200 locomotives were rebuilt with a slightly modified, Typ 50E, combustion-chambered boiler, originally designed for the Class 50.35. Other notable features of the Rekolok were new, welded cylinders , an IfS/DR mixer- preheater system and a new driver's cab front walls with oval windows, mainly on account of the new boiler.
The DRG (lit. German Imperial Railway Company) was formed under the terms of the Dawes Plan from the Deutsche Reichseisenbahnen (lit. Imperial Railways), a merger of the various German state railways after the First World War. The tables are generally organized in accordance with the DRG's numbering schemes for the various types of vehicles.
PKP classes Ty2 and Ty42 is a class of freight (T) 2-10-0 (y) steam locomotive used by Polskie Koleje Państwowe (Polish State Railways, PKP) from 1942 (42) onwards.They are Deutsche Reichsbahn class 52 Kriegslokomotiven (war locomotives), either acquired new (Ty42), or secondhand (Ty2), having been built during World War II in factories in many European countries (Germany and occupied ...
The goods train locomotives of the Class 42 built from 1943 onwards were the second, heavy class of so-called war locomotives (Kriegslokomotiven) (KDL 2), intended for duties on routes that were cleared for a higher axle load. Further locomotives were built and sold by LOFAG after the war.
Twenty locomotives were destroyed during the Second World War; lightly damaged engines were repaired. Of the original 775 units, 175 went to the GDR railways , 385 to the Deutsche Bundesbahn , 29 to the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB), 44 to the PKP in Poland as the Class TKt3 , 73 to the SZD and 62 to the CSD (6 of which later went to the SZD ...