DR 137 236

The DR 137 236 was an experimental railcar of the Deutsche Reichsbahn, built as a comparison vehicle with mechanical power transmission for the diesel-electric railcars 137 111 to 116, whose body it largely matched. It was ordered from the Dessau wagon works and delivered in 1937. Unlike the very similar 137 235, it had a Mylius gearbox, a five-speed unit with reverser built into the gearbox and pneumatic gear changing. Its twelve-cylinder four-stroke diesel was the Mercedes-Benz OM 85, mounted on rubber on a subframe, and fuel was carried in two tanks of 300 litres. It was used around Nuremberg and ran 86,000 km in its first 21 months. It was retired in 1945 and scrapped at the Desching scrap depot, having been destroyed in the Second World War.