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The Deutsche Reichsbahn’s Class V 200 is a series of diesel-electric locomotives. It is the variant of the Soviet M62 design built for the GDR. With the introduction of electronic numbering on the Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1970, it was renumbered Class 120.

In the 1960s, the conversion of traction from steam to diesel was advocated. For this purpose, not only were locomotives built in Babelsberg and Hennigsdorf, but locomotives from the Luhansk locomotive factory were also imported from the Soviet Union (now Ukraine). This was a political decision. Due to specialization agreements within the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA), no more diesel locomotives with higher power were to be built in the GDR in the future. The first of these imported series was the V 200, later Class 120, with 1470 kW (2000 hp) for freight train service. This was the M 62 model, introduced in 1965, which had already been delivered to Soviet and foreign railways. From 1966 to 1975, the Deutsche Reichsbahn (German State Railways) purchased a total of 378 locomotives of this series in three series. This also marked the transition from the previously dominant diesel-hydraulic to diesel-electric traction.

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