Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.The Voith Maxima locomotives are a new family of diesel-hydraulic locomotives built by Voith Turbo Lokomotivtechnik GmbH & Co. KG. (short: Voith Turbo). According to Voith, the Maxima 40CC is the most powerful single-engined diesel-hydraulic locomotive in the world, rated at 3,600 kW. In 2007 the locomotive series was awarded the Red Dot Design Award.In the 1990s Voith Turbo, a well-known German transmission manufacturer developed the new LS 640 reU2 transmission which was to be used in a new, high-powered locomotive series by MaK, the predecessor company of Vossloh Locomotives. MaK was counting on DB to order a large number of these new locomotives, but with German reunification and the inheritance of many DR Class 132 locomotives,