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DRG H 02 1001
🇩🇪 Germany ·built by Berliner Maschinenbau· from 1929· prototype German high-pressure 4-6-2 locomotive
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- 1. H02-1001s: Unknown author Unknown author· Public domain
what is it?
The DRG H 02 1001 was a high-pressure steam locomotive built by the engineering firm of Berliner Maschinenbau (formerly L. Schwarzkopff) to the design of Dr L. Löffler. The aim was not only to improve fuel economy—the usual reason for adopting high steam pressures—but also to increase the amount of power that could be produced within the German loading gauge. The H02 1001 locomotive was the only example of the Schwarzkopff-Löffler high-pressure boiler system, a complex technology in which heat was extracted from the firebox by tubes filled with steam rather than boiling water.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 97 years ago, in 1929.
- Weighs about as much as 19 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 23.8 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1929–1930
- retired
- 1945
- status
- retired
- number built
- 1
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- builders
- Berliner Maschinenbau
- operators
- Deutsche Reichsbahn
- top speed
- 110 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-6-2
- length
- 23.8 m
- weight
- 112 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1155584, Wikipedia: DRG H 02 1001 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.