Class 01.10 Older Design Steam Locomotive

After several years of rudimentary train service, the new German Federal Railroad undertook in 1949 the first steps of offering high-quality train service again. Express trains were planned running at least at speeds of 100 to 120 kilometers per hour / 60 to 75 miles per hour. Higher speeds were not possible until the Sixties due to the roadbed and the available locomotive roster. The 54 remaining three-cylinder class 01.10 express steam locomotives were suddenly very much in demand with the introduction of a higher quality express train service. They were only ten years old and were modern locomotives in terms of their design. The DB thus had the streamlining removed from all of the 01.10 units and overhauled for express train service. The reasons for the complete removal of the streamlining on the boiler was the fact that the streamlining was very damaged and was superfluous, because they were no longer run at the high speeds for which these units had been designed. All of the class 01.10 locomotives were now given boiler cladding. Sheet metal cladding was built around the older design boiler and held in place with boiler bands. It was easy to recognize locomotives from the front with the older design boiler without streamlining: On a streamlined locomotive, the entire boiler superstructure was hidden under the streamlined shell. The feedwater heater sitting crosswise above the smoke box was thus recessed deeper in the smoke box and the smoke box door was flattened accordingly at the top.