DB1 (DRG2) 4-6-2 No. 001 164-3 (01.164)
Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg, Bayern, Germany 		Location: Deutsches Dampflok-Museum
Status: Display
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1 DB Deutsche Bundesbahn German Federal Railways
2 DRG Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft German Imperial Railways
Posted: Jan 18, 2023 @ 06:01:42 by Dale W Fickés
Delivery to DRG i- Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft and accepted the following month in Braunschweig as No. 01 164. The company, in 02/1937 became DRB - Deutsche Reichsbahn and from 08/1945 the locomotive found itself in the RBGD - Reichsbahn General Directorate of the British Zone of Occupation, Bielefeld and in 1946 in the HVE - Main administration of the railways of the American and British occupation area, i.e. Merger of the railway administrations of the American and British zones of occupation that later, in 1949, became the HVE as the Railway Department into the Transport Administration and it then joined the emerging DB - Deutsche Bundesbahn. It received a new super-heated chamber boiler (Jung 13025/1958) in 1960 and in 1968 was computerised as No. 001 164-3 and ran until being withdrawn in 1971, after which it was employed as acstationary boiler by company Wabt. Göttingen, later in Kirchenlaibach from 11/1976. Purchased privately by Norbert Heidrich, Kutzenberg in 08/ 1977, later on load to DDM - German Steam Locomotive Museum, Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg in its original identity, with intermediary storage in former Bw Lichtenfels.