Lokportrait Dampflok 89 6237

The 89 6237 was built in 1924 at the Linke-Hofmann locomotive factory in Breslau. Its factory number was 2936. It was ordered by the Ellrich-Zorge narrow-gauge railway. Upon delivery, it received the operating number 3. The locomotive is a three-coupled wet steam locomotive of the Magnet type, a heavily modified copy of the Prussian T3. With its first owner, the Ellrich-Zorge narrow-gauge railway, the anticipated increase in transport capacity did not materialize as expected, and so the locomotive was sold again just two years later. It likely went to the Erfurt-Nottleben narrow-gauge railway in 1928. From 1930 onwards, the C-coupler was in service on the Bebitz-Alsleben branch line. Unfortunately, information regarding the current operations of the 89 6237 is partly contradictory and partly based on assumptions. It can be assumed that the locomotive was used on the 8-kilometer-long Bebitz-Alsleben narrow-gauge railway until 1939. Afterwards, it became locomotive number 251 on the Erfurt-Nottleben narrow-gauge railway. It survived World War II there. With the nationalization of many private railways in East Germany, the wet steam locomotive, a Magnet type, was incorporated into the Reichsbahn numbering system in 1949, becoming number 89 6237.