Product Features and Details
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Filigree reversing gear
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Finest paintwork and printing
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Freestanding pipes
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Prepared for smoke generator
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Boiler and wheels in die-cast zinc
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Spring buffers
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Illuminated driver's cab
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NEM-standard short-coupling
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21-pole interface
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Body: black; Chassis and wheels: red
The Deutsche Reichsbahn Gesellschaft listed 78 engines of the Prussian T 8 as the new series 89.0 in the final reclassification plan of 1925. The operational area of the engines had in the meantime changed significantly and was now mainly outside the Prussian provinces. The strongholds were now the divisions of Dresden and Stuttgart, whereas only a few locomotives of the Altona and Hanover divisions were still in service in the ports of Bremen and Hamburg. The Dresden locomotives were spread all over Saxony, whereas T 8 engines could be seen in Württemberg in Friedrichshafen, Aulendorf and Freudenstadt.
The onset of the global economic crises and the numerous engines purchased at the end of the war soon made the BR 89.0 dispensable.Some engines went to private and works railways, the rest were decommissioned and scrapped. As a result of the nationalisation of the Mecklenburgischer Friedrich Wilhelm Eisenbahn und Lokalbahn AG, however, four locomotives returned to the stock of the state railway now known as DRB at the end of the 1930s.
In 1940, two locomotives (89 1001 and 1002) were sold to the Hoesch smelting works as works locomotives 26 and 27. 89 1003 remained in the western occupation zones and in 1946 went to the Westfälische Landeseisenbahn as locomotive 88. The 89 1004 went to the DR of the GDR, where it was in service until 1966. It was kept and can be seen today in the branch of the DB museum in the former Halle P depot in green livery as „Berlin 7001“.
