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DRG Class 62

DRG Class 62
62 015 in Dresden Altstadt depot, August 2018
Type and origin
Power typeSteam
BuilderHenschel & Sohn
Serial number20844–20858
Build date1928–1929
Total produced15
Specifications
Configuration:
 • Whyte4-6-4T
 • UIC2′C2′ h2t
 • GermanPt 37.20
Gauge1,435 mm (4 ft 8+12 in)
Leading dia.0,850 mm (2 ft 9+12 in)
Driver dia.1,750 mm (5 ft 8+78 in)
Trailing dia.0,850 mm (2 ft 9+12 in)
Wheelbase:
 • Axle spacing
(Asymmetrical)
  • 2,200 mm (7 ft 2+58 in) +
  • 1,950 mm (6 ft 4+34 in) +
  • 2,150 mm (7 ft 58 in) +
  • 2,850 mm (9 ft 4+14 in) +
  • 1,950 mm (6 ft 4+34 in) +
  • 2,200 mm (7 ft 2+58 in) =
 • Engine13,300 mm (43 ft 7+58 in)
Length:
 • Over headstocks15,840 mm (51 ft 11+58 in)
 • Over buffers17,140 mm (56 ft 2+34 in)
Height4,550 mm (14 ft 11+18 in)
Axle load20.2 t (19.9 long tons; 22.3 short tons)
Adhesive weight60.8 t (59.8 long tons; 67.0 short tons)
Empty weight97.9 t (96.4 long tons; 107.9 short tons)
Service weight123.6 t (121.6 long tons; 136.2 short tons)
Fuel typeCoal
Fuel capacity4.3 t (4.2 long tons; 4.7 short tons)
Water cap.14 m3 (3,080 imp gal; 3,700 US gal)
Firebox:
 • Grate area3.55 m2 (38.2 sq ft)
Boiler:
 • Pitch3,150 mm (10 ft 4 in)
 • Tube plates4,700 mm (15 ft 5 in)
 • Small tubes50 mm (1+1516 in), 155 off
 • Large tubes133 mm (5+14 in), 41 off
Boiler pressure14 bar (14.3 kgf/cm2; 203 psi)
Heating surface:
 • Firebox15.0 m2 (161 sq ft)
 • Tubes105.28 m2 (1,133.2 sq ft)
 • Flues75.67 m2 (814.5 sq ft)
 • Total surface195.95 m2 (2,109.2 sq ft)
Superheater:
 • Heating area72.50 m2 (780.4 sq ft)
CylindersTwo, outside
Cylinder size600 mm × 660 mm (23+58 in × 26 in)
Valve gearoutside Heusinger (Walschaerts) with Kuhn slide
Train heatingSteam
Performance figures
Maximum speed100 km/h (62 mph)
Indicated power1,680 PS (1,240 kW; 1,660 hp)
Career
Numbers62 001 – 62 015
Retired1973

The Class 62 engines were standard (see Einheitsdampflokomotiven) passenger train tank locomotives of Germany's Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (DRG).

The Class 62s were developed and delivered by the firm of Henschel for the Reichsbahn during the 1920s. The engines were two-cylinder superheated steam locomotives. Fifteen units were manufactured. Although the engines were built as early as 1928, the Deutsche Reichsbahn did not take over numbers 62 003–015 until 1932. This was due to the low priority for such engines in the Reichsbahn, as well as the high cost. During the 1930s they were stationed at the locomotive depots (Bahnbetriebswerke or Bw) of Düsseldorf marshalling yard, Sassnitz on the island of Rügen and Meiningen. After the Second World War eight examples were left in the hands of the DR in East Germany and seven with the Deutsche Bundesbahn.

Up to 1967, engines in GDR were distributed around various depots including, for example, Meiningen, Berlin Ostbahnhof and Rostock. The engines also spent a short while in Wittenberge and Berlin-Lichtenberg depots. Number 62 007 was stationed from 8 April to 6 May 1967 in Schwerin, but was only stored there. In 1968 they were assembled at Frankfurt (Oder) shed. There the engines hauled trains on the Frankfurt (Oder)-Erkner route. At the beginning of 1970 only numbers 62 007, 62 014 and 62 015 were still in operation, in the Est Wriezen where they headed trains to Berlin-Lichtenberg. Number 62 007 was retired there in 1972, the last engine in schedule services, but continued to be used as a heating engine until 1973. The only surviving locomotive, no. 62 015, is today owned by the DB (Nuremberg Transport Museum) and is housed in the locomotive shed of the former Dresden-Altstadt depot. Until 1997 the engines was used to haul for special trains.

Immediately after the war, after they had been sent to Wuppertal, the Deutsche Bundesbahn housed its vehicles at Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Essen, and Krefeld. By 1956 the DB's Class 62s had been taken out of service. The last engine, 62 003, was retired in 1968 in Schwerte, after it had served as an instructional model from 1956 to 1966 in the engine driver school in Troisdorf.

See also

Literature

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  • Thomas Frister; Hansjürgen Wenzel (ed.): Lokporträt Baureihe 62 Eisenbahn-Bildarchiv – Vol. 41. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-88255-380-2
  • Alfred B. Gottwaldt, ed. (1982), "Bilder aus der Geschichte der Baureihe 62", Lok-Magazin (in German), no. 116, Stuttgart: Franckh’sche Verlagshandlung, W. Keller & Co., pp. 362–368, ISSN 0458-1822
  • Hütter, Ingo (2021). Die Dampflokomotiven der Baureihen 60 bis 91 der DRG, DRB, DB, und DR (in German). Werl: DGEG Medien. pp. 15–17. ISBN 978-3-946594-21-5.
  • Oliver Strüber (2019), Rudolf Heym (ed.), "Die Außergewöhnliche Baureihe 62 im Porträt", Lok-Magazin (in German), no. 1/2020, Munich: GeraMond Verlag, pp. 92–103, ISSN 0458-1822
  • Weisbrod, Manfred; Müller, Hans; Petznik, Wolfgang (1978). Dampflokomotiven deutscher Eisenbahnen, Baureihe 60–96 (EFA 1.3) (in German) (4th ed.). Düsseldorf: Alba. pp. 17–20, 227. ISBN 3-87094-083-2.