Deutsche Kriegslokomotiven 1939 – 1945

Deutsche Kriegslokomotiven 1939 – 1945

Introduction: From German locomotive construction in the First World War

History of the development of war locomotives

• The Deutsche Reichsbahn during the revolt from 1935 to 1939
• Locomotive construction in the first two years
• of the war’The conflict between the Reichsbahn Central Office and industry,Designs
• of simple locomotives for war purposes
• The founding of the Main Committee on Rail Vehicles
• at the Reich Minister for Armament and Ammunition

The 1st War Locomotive, Class 52

• The decision to build type 1° 
• Formation of the Community of Grofigerman Locomotive Factories
• Transport crisis in mid-1942
• Results of the design work
• The compulsion to build transitional war locomotives
• Preparation of serial production and preparation of the war type catalogue Orders
• for the first Contract
• for the supply of components
• Dis Replacement buildings
• Delivery of the advance locomotive 52001

Technical superstructure

• Chassis, undercarriage and steam engine
• The boiler of the Class 52
• General equipment, frost protection, brakes
• Tender designs
• Test results and in-service testing

Special

types

• Condensing locomotives
• Special designs Boiler designs

Production of the war locomotive class 52

• The production of 500 locomotives per month
• Self-responsibility in the locomotive industry
• Peak and reduction of the locomotive program in the summer of 1943
• Transfer of orders to Western European factories
• Locomotive exports to the states of Siideastern Europe
• The two war electric locomotives of the Reichsbahn
• The construction of railway wagons
• The

2nd War Locomotive, Class 42

• Design of a medium-heavy Giiter locomotive
• Designs for the Class 42 of the Reichsbahn
• Construction of Class 42 advance locomotives of the Class 42

Technical structure

• Frame, undercarriage and steam engine
• The boiler types
• General equipment, brakes, tenders and water wagons
• Test results and Proving its worth in operation

Locomotive projects of the last two years of the war

• Ground premises for the 3rd war locomotive
• The designs in detail
• Summary
• Projects for the three-metre broad-gauge railway to the Soviet Union

Locomotive construction in the last year

• of the war On the way to a standstill of production
• Balance sheet of the activities of the Main Committee on Rail Vehicles

The German war locomotives after 1945

• The situation of the locomotive factories in May 1945
• The German post-war production of the Class 52
• The post-war production of the Class 42
• The war locomotives in service with the Deutsche Bundesbahn
• Use and modernisation of the war locomotives with the Deutsche Reichsbahn
• The war locomotives in other European countries

Some railway vehicles of the German Wehrmacht

• Wehrmacht diesel locomotives
• Some special cars of the Wehrmacht
• Armoured trains and tank draisines
• Railway history of the Second World War
• Railway anti-aircraft weapons
• Sources and bibliography
• List of abbreviations