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Good Morning, Folks! Today is July 31st and the Diner will be moved to a new location for the coming month. We will thus conclude our video tour through Germany with a homage to a loco which was once the pride of Deutsche Reichsbahn passenger service. The Deutsche Reichsbahn needed powerful steam locomotives with a top speed of 150 km/h and the ability to haul trains of 500 tonnes at 120 km/h, as well as trains of 350 tonnes at 100 km/h up ramps with a 5 &permil; incline, for its network of fast D and FD trains. This was more than the existing Class 01 and 03 engines were able to cope with because their two-cylinder driving gear did not have sufficient reserves of power, the 01.10 had three cylinders. To reduce air resistance, the new vehicles were equipped with a streamlined body shell that reached down to 400 mm above the top of the rails, and to reduce frictional losses they were equipped with roller bearings on the drive and coupling rods. Out of a perceived requirement for 400 locomotives, 204 were initially ordered in 1939 from all the major locomotive factories in Germany. However, as a result of the Second World War only 55 were eventually delivered, all of which came from Schwartzkopff. In 1944 all the locomotives were moved to western Germany due to the course of the war. After the Second World War the engines were in a pitiful state. Sections of streamlining were missing and the boilers, made of steel that was not particularly durable, showed the first signs of fatigue. On 20 June 1945 the entire class was retired. Because the machines needed to be operational, it was decided in 1953 to tender for a new, welded, high-performance boiler. In the process of reboilering the locos, they lost their cowling. The class 01.10 was employed by Deutsche Bundesbahn until 1975, shortly before steam was abandoned at all. Today, 4 are preserved in in operating condition. In 1996, 01 1102 received a complete overhaul and received a new streamliner shell, making her look like just having left the factory. She is out of service at the moment, again awaiting a major overhaul. <iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/bSR5J-kqU1s" width="425" height="350"></iframe> Enjoy!
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