page_title: 4-6-4
section_title: Germany
hierarchical_section_title: 4-6-4 / Usage / Germany
caption_attribution_description: German steam engine 05 001 at the DB Museum in Nuremberg
context_page_description: Under the Whyte notation for the classification of locomotives, 4-6-4 represents the wheel arrangement of four leading wheels, six powered and coupled driving wheels and four trailing wheels. In France where the type was first used, it is known as the Baltic while it became known as the Hudson in most of North America.
context_section_description: Tender locomotives
  Three 4-6-4 tender locomotives were built for the Deutsche Reichsbahn (DRG) by Borsig in 1935. Designated Class 05, they were designed for high speed running. They were three-cylinder locomotives with giant 90 ¹⁄₂ inches (2,299 millimetres) driving wheels and powerful clasp brakes on all wheels.
  The first two locomotives were conventional locomotives, but the third was built as a cab forward and burned pulverised coal. All three were built streamlined, in shrouds that covered the locomotives almost to the railhead. On 11 May 1936, the 05.002 set a world speed record of 124.5 miles per hour (200.4 kilometres per hour) that was bettered by the British 4-6-2 Pacific Mallard two years later, on 3 July 1938.  The 05.003 was converted to conventional boiler-forward running in 1944.
  All three survived the Second World War and were rebuilt as conventional non-streamlined locomotives in 1950, with new boilers. They worked in this form until 1957, when electric locomotives took over on the high-speed routes. The first locomotive, 05.001, was restored to its original streamlined configuration in 1961, for display in the Nuremberg Transport Museum.
  Tank locomotives
  A number of German 4-6-4T locomotive classes were built, the best known being the Prussian T 18 class of 1912. Altogether 534 of them were built by the Stettiner Maschinenbau AG Vulcan and Henschel & Son between 1912 and 1927. Of these, 458 went to the Prussian state railways and subsequently the Deutsche Reichsbahn, where they became the DRG Class 78.
caption: 05.001 in the Nuremberg Transport Museum
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