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DR Class 119
🇷🇴 Romania ·built by FAUR· from 1976· class of 200 East German diesel-hydraulic locomotives
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3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. 95339 Neuenmarkt, Germany - panoramio: simon tunstall· CC BY 3.0
- 2. 17.05.93 Rottenbach 219.092 (6332347249): Phil Richards from London, UK· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 3. DR 119 117-0 at Rudolstadt, Aug 1991 (4821505897): Sludge G· CC BY-SA 2.0
what is it?
The DR Class 119 was an East German Deutsche Reichsbahn diesel locomotive that was built in Romania, more or less as Design by committee of several communist countries. When the Deutsche Bahn AG formed up in 1993 it was redesignated as DB Class 219. They were nicknamed "U-boats", "Karpatenschreck" ("Carpathian Terror") or "Ceaușescus Rache" ("Ceaușescu's revenge"), due to the numerous technical problems the engines suffered before redesign.
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 50 years ago, in 1976.
- 1.5 MW is about 18 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1976–1985
- retired
- 2006
- status
- retired
- number built
- 200
- kind
- diesel locomotive
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇷🇴 Romania
- builders
- FAUR
- operators
- Deutsche Reichsbahn (GDR), Deutsche Bahn
- top speed
- 120 km/h
- power
- 1.5 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- C′C′
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q897184, Wikipedia: DR Class 119 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.