Lokportrait Dampflok 64 491

The standard passenger tender locomotive 64 491 was built in 1940 by Orenstein & Koppel in Berlin with the serial number 13298. It entered service with the Deutsche Reichsbahn (German Reich Railway) on June 15, 1940. Its first operational base was the Pasewalk railway depot. It survived the Second World War there. It wasn't until June 13, 1946, that the locomotive moved west to Lübeck. The Lübeck railway depot was home to 64 491 from June 14, 1946, to January 31, 1950. From that date, the locomotive's journey took it even further west, from the Baltic Sea to the North Sea, to Husum. Number 64 remained in service in this depot until May 13, 1957, thus marking the locomotive's farewell to northern Germany. The next station was Neuss in North Rhine-Westphalia. The locomotive number 64 491 remained at the Neuss depot from May 13, 1957, to September 7, 1961. It then went to Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance for five and a half years, until March 1, 1966. The next station was the Ulm depot, which lasted almost exactly one year. This station was followed by the Heilbronn depot from March 4, 1967, to June 1, 1973.