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DR Class V 15

🇩🇪 East Germany ·built by Lokomotivbau Karl Marx Babelsberg· from 1959· class of East German Kleinlok

7 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences

1. Diesellok V 15 1001 retouched: Bf110· CC BY-SA 3.0
2. 2014 in Magdeburg Deutsche Reichsbahn LKM V 15 B: Spielvogel· CC0
3. Bundesarchiv Bild 183-B0303-0100-056, Leipziger Messe, Diesellok V15 2258 (BR V15): Heinz Koch· CC BY-SA 3.0 de
4. Deutsche Reichsbahn Innenansicht LKM V 15 B: Spielvogel· CC BY-SA 4.0
5. V 10 B-V 15: Aquandur· CC BY-SA 3.0
6. V15 1002 (8014790254): Torsten Maue from Magdeburg, Deutschland· CC BY 2.0
7. V15 1002 der Magdeburger Eisenbahnfreunde (9708523564): Torsten Maue from Magdeburg, Deutschland· CC BY-SA 2.0

what is it?

DR class V 15 and DR class V 23 were diesel locomotives of Deutsche Reichsbahn in the GDR with side-rod drive for light shunting duties.

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.

diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).

From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.

Sources: Wikidata Q900978, Wikipedia: DR Class V 15 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.