DB (DRB) 2-10-0 No. 044 404-2 (44.404)
Darmstadt-Kranichstein, Hessen, Germany 		Location: Bahnwelt Darmstadt-Kranichstein
Status: Display
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Posted: Mar 5, 2023 @ 05:03:25 by Dale W Fickés
Delivery to and by DRB - Deutsche Reichsbahn as No. 44 404 at Göttingen following a test drive to Dransfeld, that found itself in 1945 in the D.O.C.F. - Detachment of Occupation des Chemins de Fer Français, Speyer [superior railway supervisory authority of the French occupied zone] though at the end of this year it was a damaged locomotive at Bw Kornwestheim, north of Stuttgart and stored at Bw Freudenstadt. In 08/1947, following the dissolution of the supreme directorate of the German railways in the French-occupied zone it became the resposibility of SWDE - Association of Southwest German Railways, Speyer and in SWDE - Deutsche Bundesbahn, Works Association of the Southwest German Railways, Speyer, later the DB - Deutsche Bundesbahn. It was renumbered (computerised) from 1968 as No. 044 404-2 and in 1975 was fitted at Aw Braunschweig with a Riggenbach counter-pressure brake from No. 044 197 and continued running until 02/1977, when it was withdrawn at Bw Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck. A month later it was preserved by the EDK - Eisenbahnmuseum Darmstadt-Kranichstein e. V., Darmstadt-Kranichstein as No.44 404, where it still resides.