The SVT 137 155 was an articulated 3-car DMU designed by Franz Kruckenberg
and built 1934 to 1938 by Vereinigte Westdeutsche Waggonfabriken AG. This
train was very modern for its time, but never went into regular passenger
service as it had broken axles twice during test runs, and express DMU
services were cancelled with the beginning of the second world war. The
train stood for many years in a siding of a maintenance plant of the DR
and was eventually scrapped. All that remains is a powered bogie with
the diesel-hydraulic transmission and some fragments of the frame and 
carbody of the end car. The Verkehrsmuseum Dresden has completed these parts
by reconstructing the original shape of the nose, which inspired both the
DB VT 11.5 and the DR VT 18.16. 2001-04-27.
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photo: <a href="mailto:tbk@uncia.de">tobias b köhler</a>