DR Class V 180 Diesel locomotive, DR Class 118 or BR 228

The class 118 was built as a Series V 180 locomotive by Karl Marx Babelsberg for the German Reichsbahn. It was the largest diesel locomotive in the GDR. The company LKM completed in 1959 with the axle formula B’B ‘the two Vorlokomotiven DR Class V 180 001 and 002. Since the GDR industry was not able to produce all the parts for the large locomotive, the locomotives still had a Voith transmission and were delivered without a boiler.

These locomotives also had a multiple control of Brown, Boveri & Cie. These locomotives were not taken over into the DR and scrapped in 1965. The first series production up to V 180 087 was completed in the years 1963-1965 and received two twelve-cylinder diesel engines of the type 12 KVD 18/21-A1 in V arrangement. The nominal power of the engines was 662 KW / 900 HP each and came from the VEB engine works Johannisthal. For use on the branch lines, the BR 118 was developed with the axle formula C’C ‘and completed in 1964 as DR Class V 180 201. This was followed by 205 locomotives, which were delivered with the model number 118.