"With silver boiler rings / The class 65 was part of the new construction programme of the Deutsche Bundesbahn and was first delivered in 1951. The characteristic appearance gives the machine a look that is both
powerful as well as elegant appearance. Its preferred area of operation as a passenger train tender locomotive was suburban and light rail traffic in the Ruhr area as well as on the Odenwaldbahn and the Überwaldbahn.
Odenwaldbahn and the Überwaldbahn. Some of the locomotives were later equipped with push-pull control. The 18 locomotives reached a maximum speed of 85 km/h with an output of
power of 1,089 kW. In 1972, the last locomotive was sidled up."