** The German [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRG_Class_52 class 52]] "war locomotive". Its immediate predecessor, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRG_Class_50 class 50]], a comparatively lightweight 2-10-0, was introduced shortly before WorldWarII. During the war itself, the Reichsbahn required insane amounts of steam locomotives capable of pulling whatever trains on whatever (standard gauge) tracks and made of materials that didn't have to be imported. The class 50 was stripped and simplified so much that it was possible to build more than 3,000 locomotives in three years. When the 50 had been simplified to the max, it became the 52, an almost absolutely no-frills austerity locomotive of which more than 6,000 were built in less than three years—an average of about six a day. Originally, they were designed to operate no longer than five years. But their utter simplicity made them so robust that they would survive the next several decades in some places. Poland, for example, used unreconstructed 52s labeled Ty2 and Ty42 in regular services until the early 1990s and still has two operational Ty2, and the Soviet Union still had hundreds of former 52s with only few modifications on stand-by as a strategical reserve in East Prussia when it was dissolved in 1992.
* Diesel shunting locomotives. One of the best examples would be [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRG_Kleinlokomotive_Class_II the Köf]][[hottip:*:Technically, not all of them were Köfs, the exact naming depended on the engine and the drivetrain; also, the Deutsche Bundesbahn acquired a larger and more powerful Köf class in the 60s which has got almost nothing to do with these]]. One of the least remarkable German locomotives. It came up in the early 30s as a small shunter with an internal combustion engine (some had gasoline engines, most had diesels), and although easily ignored, they were a common sight on big and small yards and stations for decades. In fact, when the Bundesbahn began to phase them out in the 80s and 90s (the Deutsche Bahn AG put the last one out of service in 1999), there were plenty of buyers for these small, cheap, simple and reliable machines, and countless ones are operational still today.

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