Steam Locomotive Information

Here are the notes for DB (DR) (DRB) No. 044 397-8 (44.2397-6) (44.397), a 2-10-0 located in Prora/Rügen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. If you have additional information about this locomotive, and would like to share it, click the Add Note button.

Posted: Mar 3, 2023 @ 08:03:17 by Dale W Fickés
Delivery in late 03/1941to DRB - Deutsche Reichsbahn as No. 44 397 and acceptance in early 04/1941 at Bw Göttingen that after WW2 found itself in the Soviet sector of what became East Germany who operated the then DR - Deutsche Reichsbahn. Towards the end of 1964 it was called into Aw Meiningen to later be fitted with Oil-firing equipment (as part of an L4 investigation)] departing from here the following year in its original identity but in 1970 was re-numbered as 44 0397-8 until being withdrawn in late 1981. It went back to Aw Meiningen in early 1983 to be re-converted to coal fuel but with drive-parts removed, then emerging as No. 44 2397-6. During 1990/1991 it was used heating locomotive in Bw Nordhausen, prior to being stored here and from 01/1992 under thevguise of the DB was renumbered 044 397-8 prior to retirement later that year when it was purchased by the HEP - IG Historische Eisenbahn Paderborn, succeeded in 1994 by the EBG Eisenbahn-Betriebs-Gesellschaft mbH, Binz (Rügen)-Prora where it then went to the Railway and Technology Museum Rügen, Binz (Rügen)-Prora and from 2007 to the DP Deutsche Privatbahn GmbH, Hameln. In 2019 it was again at the oldtimer museum Rügen, Binz for display,whose name was changed in 09/2022.

Posted: Sep 27, 2010 @ 06:09:00 by Phil Horton
DR No. 44.2397, a 2-10-0 is pictured at the Railway and Technical Museum at Prora/Rügen on 16 Sept 2010


DB (DR) (DRB) 2-10-0 No. 044 397-8 (44.2397-6) (44.397) Prora/Rügen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany	Location: Old Timer Museum Status: Unknown