page_title: DR Class 130 family
section_title: DR Class 142 / DBAG Class 242
hierarchical_section_title: DR Class 130 family / Classes / DR Class 142 / DBAG Class 242
caption_attribution_description: Deutsche Bahn class 232 no. 232.439 seen at Szczecin Główny on a cross-border service taken on 19 November 1994.
context_page_description: The DR 130 family of locomotives comprises the DR Class 130, DR Class 131, DR Class 132 and DR Class 142.
  They were produced in the Soviet Union in Luhansk, Ukraine from the 1970s onwards, and were imported into the GDR. After the reunification of Germany the Deutsche Bahn inherited them and continue to make use of them mainly as heavy freight locomotives.
  Nicknamed Ludmilla, over 700 units were produced between 1970 and 1982. Two of these machines are classed as works vehicles with the designation Class 754.
context_section_description: Between 1977 and 1978 six locomotives with a power of 4,000 hp (2,980 kW) were built, and designated Class 142 in operation. However, it had been decided at the political level that the main lines would be electrified, thus there would be no need in future for such a powerful locomotive, and further machines were not built.
  The Class 142 was the most powerful single-engined diesel in Europe (along with the DSB MZ III/IV class, the rebuilt DBAG 241 and the SNCF Class CC 72000) until 2006 when the Voith Maxima 40 CC was built with an even greater power of 3,600 kW (4,830 hp) (this power had been already reached in 1975 by the French prototype CC 72075).
caption: 232 439 at Szczecin Główny, Poland with a local train
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