Die deutschen Schnellzug-Dampflokomotiven

The railway enthusiast and model train hobbyist often knows his 01 and 03 locomotives since childhood and is aware of the brief career of the streamlined locomotives and the most beautiful regional railway Pacifics. But how did the development of these top products of German engineering begin? Andreas Knipping defines the express locomotive based on the compelling criterion of large driving wheels and elaborates on its evolution from around 1850 to the last refinements around 1960, featuring many detours and beautiful successes. There are precisely 6,600 locomotives that find their place here in words, images, and tables, including the 1A1 and the Crampton as the oldest, the Prussian S 3 as the most numerous, the Reichsbahn-05 as the fastest, the Bavarian S 3/6 as perhaps the most successful, and the oil-fired three-cylinder 01 of the Federal Railway as the strongest.