DB1 (DRB2) 2-10-0 No. 044 434-9 (44.434)
Hermeskeil, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany 		Location: Dampflokmuseum Hermeskeil
Status: Display
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1 DB Deutsche Bundesbahn German Federal Railways
2 DRB Deutsche Reichsbahn German Imperial Railway Company
Posted: Mar 5, 2023 @ 05:03:50 by Dale W Fickés
Delivery to, and acceptance by DRB - Deutsche Reichsbahn in 08/1941 as No.44 434 at Bw Göttingen. In 1945 it found itself in the RBGD - Reichsbahn General Directorate of the British Occupation Zone, Bielefeld that eventually became, in 1949 the HVE as the Railway Department into the Transport Administration, then the DB - Deutsche Bundesbahn . The locomotive was computerised in 01/1968 as No. 044 434-9 and ran in this identity until being withdrawn in 1977 at Bw Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck, in the BD Essen division. In 1979 it was privately acquired by Bernd Falz, St. Wendel, West Germany which went, in 1986, to his collection in Hermeskeil , Germany as No. 44 434, where it currently remains stored.