Trainz Plus DLC - Pro Train DB Class 52

Trainz Plus DLC - Pro Train DB Class 52 adds a German Class 52 steam locomotive and a Class 52 tub tender, with a detailed driver's cab.

The Class 52

The Deutsche Reichsbahn built the Class 52 in large numbers from 1942 as a wartime development of the pre-war DRG Class 50. Designed by Richard Wagner, Chief Engineer of the DRG's Central Design Office at the Locomotive Standards Bureau, it used fewer parts and less expensive materials to speed production. The Class 52 was one of about a dozen locomotive types known as Kriegslokomotiven, or war locomotives; the three main classes were the 52, 50 and 42.

More than 7,000 Class 52 locomotives were built, and they became Germany's most-produced locomotive type. Production reached 50 or 51 machines per day in 1943. Plans called for 15,000, which would have made the Class 52 the world's most-produced locomotive type. After the war, another 300 were assembled from existing parts; more than 360 were produced in Germany and 150 in Poland. Numbered 52 1–52 7794, the locomotives helped meet wartime demand and remained important to reconstruction across much of Europe after the war. They were designed for a service life of only five to ten years, and 20 are preserved in Germany.