page_title: DB Class V 162
section_title: Production locomotives
hierarchical_section_title: DB Class V 162 / Design and production / Production locomotives
caption_attribution_description: DB 217 011 in ozeanblau/beige in Bamberg
context_page_description: The DB Class V 162 is a class of four-axle diesel hydraulic locomotive built as a development of the DB Class V 160 for the Deutsche Bundesbahn from 1965 to 1968.
  This variant has a separate diesel engine providing auxiliary power and for electric train heating, replacing the steam generator in the original V 160.
  The locomotives continued to be used after the formation of the Deutsche Bahn AG in 1994; the final DB Schenker unit was withdrawn in December 1997.
  Two of the prototypes of the class operated as internal locomotives and were for a time classified as DB Class 753.
context_section_description: As the prototypes had proved successful, in 1967 construction of twelve locomotives began at Krupp. Since a new numbering scheme was introduced in 1968, the locomotives were given the numbers 217 011 to 217 022 (the prototypes being renumbered to 217 001 to 217 003).
  In 1971, disc brakes were fitted to the locomotives (replacing the block brakes) leading to more effective braking and a consequential increase in the maximum operating speed limit by 20 km/h to 140 km/h.
  Even though it was foreseeable that more of this class of locomotives could be built, in 1968 the first representatives of the Class 218 were built with a single diesel engine (of 2500 hp) providing traction and electrical heating power in one unit. Thus no more of this variant were made, since the single-engined variant presented a clear reduction in maintenance costs.
  These vehicles had a distinctive exhaust system (with scoop like protuberances on the roof) fitted in 1993.
caption: 217 011
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