DR (DRB) 2-10-0 No. 52.8012-8 (52.4944)
Gera, Thuringen, Germany 		Location: Private
Status: Display
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Posted: Oct 9, 2023 @ 06:10:10 by Achim
Private property, loaned to Geraer Eisenbahnwelten. Currently undergoing external refurbishment in the roundhouse. 50.890145° 12.079081°
Posted: Oct 19, 2022 @ 08:10:07 by Dale W Fickés
.Delivered to the DRB by the MBA successor to O&K from their Potsdam-Babelberg/Drewitz plant as No. 52 4944 it was stored in 1946 by the SBZ Military Administration until 1949 when released to the emerging DR in the same identity. In January 1960 it was called into Raw Stendal for reconstruction with Raw Halberstadt new boiler 170/160 and other parts, emerging that February as No. 52 8012, computerised as No. 52 8012-8 in 1970 and survived running until early 1989 when then called into Raw Meiningen for conversion to a Heating lok, for Bw Zittau, which it served until being finally withdrawn in September 1992, having been taken on by the succeeding DB in January of that year. It was preserved in August of the following year by the Royal Gaststätten GmbH, Aalen and later went to the WTB - Wutachtalbahn e. V., Blumberg, being stored here in August 1999. It was later plinthed in Blumberg-Zollhaus until, in May 2019 being bought privately and transferred to Gera, Thuringia, Germany.