DR1 (DRB2) 2-10-0 No. 52.2195
Nördlingen, Bayern, Germany 		Location: Bayerisches Eisenbahnmuseum
Status: Stored
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1 DR Deutsche Reichsbahn German State Railway
2 DRB Deutsche Reichsbahn German Imperial Railway Company
Posted: Mar 13, 2023 @ 09:03:55 by Dale W Fickés
This was an order, originally for the supply of 2-8-2T No. 86 911 that was cancelled before being built. In the event the build number was given to a new Kreislok that became, in 03/1933 DRB - Deutsche Reichsbahn No. 52 2195 that found itself, at the end of WW2 in tge Soviet sector of Germany employed by the newly created DR - Deutsche Reichsbahn also as No. 52 2195. It was leased, with others for twelve months in 06/1954 to the PKP - Polskie koleje Panstwowe, Poland in the same identity and, in 1970 renumbered by the DR as No. 52 2195-7, running to 02/1988 though it remained on the books until after the DB/DR merger in 1992 and was again renumbered as 052 195-5, later going to the BEM - Bayerisches Eisenbahnmuseum e. V., Nördlingen as No. 52 2195.