The Class 80 tank engines were German standard locomotives (Einheitsloks) with the Deutsche Reichsbahn.

They were intended to replace the aging, rickety state railway line engines performing shunting duties in their dotage at large stations.

Between 1927 and 1928, 39 vehicles were produced, having been built in the locomotive factories of Jung in Jungenthal, Union Gießerei in Königsberg, Wolf and Hohenzollern.

After they had been on duty, prior to the Second World War, primarily in the area of Leipzig (including the shunting of post vans) and Cologne, 22 units went into the DR in East Germany, post-1945, and 17 to the Deutsche Bundesbahn.

In Tugs (TV series), Puffa is based on a DRG Class 80, but with parts of an American engine & with wood in his bunker.