Traditional locomotive

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In the GDR, historical locomotives of the Deutsche Reichsbahn were designated as traditional locomotives , which were preserved as operational museum locomotives due to their technical and historical significance . In contrast to the vehicles of the Dresden Transport Museum , the traditional locomotives were always the property of the Deutsche Reichsbahn. The private preservation and care of museum locomotives was hardly possible in the GDR , unlike in Western Europe .

The traditional locomotives of already decommissioned series were often used as reserve locomotives in regular operation. Traditional locomotives of the series that were still in scheduled operation were used almost exclusively in normal operation, but had to be treated with care with regard to future maintenance. After the Deutsche Reichsbahn was dissolved and the stock of locomotives was taken over by the DB AG in 1994, some of the locomotives came into the holdings of the newly founded DB Museum . All other locomotives were sold to railway associations and private individuals.

A similar program for the preservation of historic locomotives also existed at the Deutsche Bundesbahn . The way in which the Deutsche Reichsbahn received and used traditional locomotives, however, differed significantly from the procedure at the Bundesbahn or other state railways in Western Europe, where use in scheduled traffic normally did not occur. The Reichsbahn also tried to keep locomotives of various series , types of traction and areas of application as comprehensive as possible . At the beginning of the 1980s, most of the traditional locomotives were even used for a long period of time in scheduled operation due to the lack of oil caused by the second oil crisis in 1979 , even if the relevant series had long been decommissioned.

In the years after 1994, most of the former DR traditional locomotives were shut down because deadlines had expired.

While the Federal Railroad did not begin to maintain operational museum locomotives until the 150th anniversary of the railroad in Germany, the Reichsbahn had already become active almost 20 years earlier. By order of December 10, 1966, on the initiative of Max Baumberg , head of the VES-M Halle, with the consent of then Minister Erwin Kramer , the GDR Ministry of Transport initially planned 27 locomotives for museum purposes, around half of which should be kept operational.

List of former DR traditional locomotives

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl-Ernst Maedel : From the steam time , p. 125, Geramond, Munich 1999, ISBN 3932785983