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DB Class 82
🇩🇪 Germany ·built by Friedrich Krupp AG· from 1950· class of 41 West German 0-10-0T locomotives
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what is it?
The DB Class 82 was a goods train tank locomotive with the Deutsche Bundesbahn in Germany, that was built in the period after the Second World War and was intended for shunting and normal rail services. They were to replace the ten-coupled state railway (Länderbahn) engines and also the accident-prone Class 87 DRG Einheitslok (standard locomotive). It was the first of the DB's so-called Neubaudampflokomotiven or newly designed steam locomotives, and was built by the firms of Krupp and Henschel in 1950 and 1951 and also by the Maschinenfabrik Esslingen in 1955.
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 76 years ago, in 1950.
- Weighs about as much as 12 African elephants (~6 t each).
- Served for 22 years (1950–1972).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1950–1955
- in service from
- 1950
- retired
- 1972
- status
- retired
- number built
- 41
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- builders
- Friedrich Krupp AG, Henschel & Sohn, Maschinenfabrik Esslingen, Lokomotiv- und Waggonbaufabrik Krupp
- operators
- Deutsche Bundesbahn
- top speed
- 70 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-10-0
- weight
- 69.7 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q315848, Wikipedia: DB Class 82 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.