The German Schnellzug-Dampflokomotiven

The railway enthusiast and model railway enthusiast has often known his 01 and 03 since childhood and is familiar with the short career of streamlined locomotives and the most beautiful rural railways. But how did the development of these top products of German technology begin? Andreas Knipping defines the express train locomotive based on the compelling criterion of large driving wheels and elaborates its evolution from about 1850 to the last refinements around 1960 with many deviations and great successes. There are almost exactly 6600 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 numerically most powerful, 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 Railroad as the most powerful.