西德联邦铁路(DB)与欧洲许多其它国家的铁路一样,是一家国营企业。二次世界大战以后重建西德铁路初期,它也自已生产过数以千计的客运车厢。但是随着西德铁路运输和工业的发展,联邦铁路不再拥有自己的工业制造部门,它所需要的机车车辆和其它铁路设施几乎全部由西德工业部门负责提供。作为用户, The German Federal Railroad (DB) is a state-owned enterprise, like the railways in many other European countries. Since the beginning of the reconstruction of the West Germany Railway after World War II, it has also produced thousands of passenger cars by itself. But with the development of rail transport and industry in West Germany, the Federal Railroad no longer owns its own industrial manufacturing sector, and almost all the locomotives and other railroad facilities it needs are supplied by the West German industrial department. As a user,