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The DR Class V 60 was a class of 0-8-0 diesel-hydraulic locomotives of the Deutsche Reichsbahn intended for medium to heavy shunting service.
In addition to being used by the DR, the locomotives were also found in service on various works and 
File:DR 106 100 Bw Weimar.jpg, Original V 60 D from Babelsberg withouth the overhanging roof.
File:V 60 1120.jpg, Refurbished V 60.10 in the original paintwork in the Chemnitz Hilbersdorf Railway Museum
File:DB 346 530 Bahnhof Stendal.jpg, 346 530 (V 60.12) in Stendal Hauptbahnhof
File:Fotothek df n-10 0000383.jpg, Driver's cab of 106 362 as ''Raban 14''
File:Kalkwerk-Rüdersdorf-20060510025055 (cropped).jpg, 345 375-0 (Mitteldeutsche Eisenbahn 75) in
With 2,256 units, the design in one of the most frequently built European standard gauge locomotives. 188 locomotives were built by LKM in Babelsberg, the remainder by LEW in Hennigsdorf.
In 1986, the last major transport project in 
Triebfahrzeug-Lexikon auf DB-Loks.de
Die V 60D-Familie in aller Welt
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mine railways
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. About 25 per cent were exported to Comecon countries, and the so-called Non-Socialist Economic Area (''Nichtsozialistisches Wirtschaftsgebiet'', NSW). For example, the Egyptian State Railways
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, the Bulgarian State Railways
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(BDŽ) and Algerian National Railways (SNTF) all received this type of locomotives.
Prototypes
Based on the requirements, LKM Babelsberg built a four-axle prototype locomotive with an asymmetrically arranged driver's cab and drive via a jackshaft and coupling rods. A turbocharged eight-cylinder 8 KVD 21 A engine from VEB Motorenwerk Johannisthal was used. The testing of theprototype
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V 60 1001 began on 5 February 1959. In September 1959, the second prototype V 60 1002 followed.
Rüdersdorf bei Berlin
Rüdersdorf is a municipality in the district Märkisch-Oderland, in Brandenburg, Germany, near Berlin.
It is served by the Schöneiche bei Berlin tramway which runs from Rüdersdorf through Schöneiche to Berlin-Friedrichshagen station on the B ...
Class 347
In 1986, the last major transport project in East Germany
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was the new Mukran Ferry Port in Sassnitz. The port was primarily used to provide a trouble-free connection between East Germany and the former Soviet Union
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. In 1989, five train ferries
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ran in regular service between Mukran and Klaipėda in Lithuania
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. Since the Soviet railways have a wider gauge of , the ferries and port facilities were built with of standard gauge and of broad gauge tracks.
Livery
In the first series, the original paintwork was red with white stripes; later, the DR painted all shunting locomotives yellow. When this the paint got a bit older and dirtier, the then golden-brown paint was reminiscent of a grilled chicken. There, locomotives in this colour were given the nickname '' Goldbroiler''.References
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Triebfahrzeug-Lexikon auf DB-Loks.de
Die V 60D-Familie in aller Welt
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