what is it?
The covered goods wagons of classes Glrhs Dresden and Gltrhs Dresden were first placed in service in Germany by the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft in 1937. The wartime (Kriegsbauart) wagon, the DRB Glmhs Leipzig, and the wartime passenger wagon, the DRB MCi-43, were based on the Dresden classes. The vehicles were of welded design and could be used in trains travelling at up to 90 km/h (56 mph).
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
- Weighs about as much as 2 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 12.8 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
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- number built
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- kind
- carriage / wagon
- builders
- Unknown builder
- top speed
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- power
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- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- length
- 12.8 m
- weight
- 14 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1155581, Wikipedia: DRG Glrhs (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.