The DRG Class 89.0 was a

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tank engine A tank locomotive or tank engine is a steam locomotive that carries its water in one or more on-board water tanks, instead of a more traditional tender. Most tank engines also have bunkers (or fuel tanks) to hold fuel; in a tender-tank locomo ...

of standard design (see '' Einheitsdampflokomotive'') built for the

Deutsche Reichsbahn The ''Deutsche Reichsbahn'', also known as the German National Railway, the German State Railway, German Reich Railway, and the German Imperial Railway, was the German national railway system created after the end of World War I from the regiona ...

(DRG).

History

It was the smallest standard locomotive in service with the Reichsbahn. Whilst numbers 89 001 - 89 003 were supplied as

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engines, the remaining seven were

superheated A superheater is a device used to convert saturated steam or wet steam into superheated steam or dry steam. Superheated steam is used in steam turbines for electricity generation, steam engines, and in processes such as steam reforming. There are ...

locomotives. After the

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half the machines went to the Polish State Railway ( PKP) and half to the

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(DR). The last engine 89 008 was taken out of service in 1968 at

Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label= Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth ...

-Altstadt

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(''Bahnbetriebswerk'' or ''Bw'') and remains preserved in the

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as a heritage locomotive. Since 1992 the engine has been in the ownership of the ''

Mecklenburg Mecklenburg (; nds, label= Low German, Mękel(n)borg ) is a historical region in northern Germany comprising the western and larger part of the federal-state Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The largest cities of the region are Rostock, Schweri ...

Railway Friends'' (''Mecklenburgischen Eisenbahnfreunde'') in

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. Although this engine was never in service with the

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, it is in the DB's transport directory.

Model railway

Z scale Z scale is one of the smallest commercially available model railway scales (1:220), with a track gauge of . Introduced by Märklin in 1972, Z scale trains operate on 0–10 volts DC and offer the same operating characteristics as all other ...

model of the Class 89.0 locomotive has been used as the symbol for this model

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. There has also been a model by the firm of

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for decades in H0 scale. The DB variant of this model has no real prototype, however, because this engine was never in the DB's fleet.

References

* * * {{DRG locomotives 89.0 0-6-0T locomotives 89 Henschel locomotives Railway locomotives introduced in 1934 Berliner locomotives Standard gauge locomotives of Germany C n2t locomotives C h2t locomotives Shunting locomotives

History

Model railway

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