DB1 (DRB2) 2-10-0 No. 50.3700-0 (50 3700)
Wittenberge, Brandenburg, Germany 		Location: Dampflokfreunde Salzwedel
Status: Restoration
Abbreviation Expansion English
1 DB Deutsche Bundesbahn German Federal Railways
2 DRB Deutsche Reichsbahn German Imperial Railway Company
Posted: Mar 10, 2023 @ 04:03:27 by Dale W Fickés
Delivery in 12/1939 to DRB - Deutsche Reichsbahn as No. 50 217 at Aw Schwerte that, with the cessation of WW2 found itself in what became the GDR (East Germany) and joined the DR - Deutsche Reichsbahn in the same guise. It was stored 06/1960 - 10/1961 awaiting repairs, and was then reconstructed at Aw Stendal emerging with a combustion chamber boiler, (SKL Magdeburg 30486/1961) in 12/1961 as No. 50 3700 and, when computerised in 1970 became No. 50 3700-7. It finished running in 1990 and was converted at Aw Meiningen into a non-drivable heating locomotive (NHL), for Bw Halberstadt, later Bw Salzwedel [GDR] "50 3700-7" 06.10.1990 - __.__.1991 Use as a heating locomotive in the Salzwedel and from 06/1991 at Bw Güsten; from 1992 at Bw Brandenburg depot. When the DB merged with DR at the end of 1991 it was renumbered 050 700-4 and finally withdrawn in 1993 when it was later purchased privately by Klaus-Peter Müller, whence it went on loan to the ETB - Eisenbahnfreunde Traditionsbahnbetriebswerk Stassfurt and then, in 2013 on loan to the DLFS - Dampflokfreunde Salzwedel e. V., Salzwedel for a planned refurbishment as a rollable exhibition.
Posted: Jul 16, 2022 @ 10:07:35 by Dale W Fickés
The locomotive is now believed to be owned and kept at Staßfurt.
Posted: Jul 16, 2022 @ 10:07:38 by Dale W Fickes
Delivered to the DRB shortly after the commencement of WW2 as No. 50 217, it passed in 1949 to the fledgling DR in the same identity until bring reconstructed as a Rekolok in the early 1960s, emerging as No. 50 3700-7 and worked until the end of 1992 when withdrawn by the succeeding DB. It was first preserved privately in Lüneburg, then by EF Aschersleben, being stored in 2004 at Staßfurt. In Spring 2014 it went to DF Salzwedel and kept in Wittenberge.