DB (DRB) 2-10-0 No. 050 778-0 (50.778)
Nördlingen, Bayern, Germany 		Location: Bayerisches Eisenbahnmuseum
Status: Display
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Posted: Mar 1, 2023 @ 08:03:39 by Dale W Fickés
Delivery to, and acceptance by the DRB - Deutsche Reichsbahn as No. 50 778. At the conclsion of WW2 it found itself in what became West Germany in the OBL-USZ - General operations management of the US zone, Frankfurt (Main) that eventually became the HVE -Railway Department into the Transport Administration which created in 1949 the DB - Deutsche Bundesbahn [which, in 1954 replaced the boiler with DWM 2714/1944 previously running on No. 52 1285, at Aw Bremen. It was computerised in 1968 as No.050 778-0 and continued running until near the end of 1976 when it was withdrawn at Bw Duisburd Wedau. Initially it went for preservation with the MEC 1962 - 1. Model Railway Club Mannheim-Ludwigshafen 1962 e. V., Mannheim-Waldhof stored at Mannheim Rbf depot befire, in 1982 going to the BEM - Bayerisches Eisenbahnmuseum e. V., Nördlingen as No. 50 778. please NOTE the locomotive the locomotive has NEVER been with DR!