BLE No. 44

The locomotive No. 44 of the Brunswick State Railway (BLE ) was a tank locomotive for mixed passenger and freight train operation. The built in 1934 by Krupp locomotive had the wheel arrangement 1'D1 'and a two-cylinder steam engine. Leading and trailing axle were in Bisselgestellen. Rather unusual for such a locomotive was equipped with smoke deflectors, who joined directly to the side water tanks and reached up to the front buffer beam.

After the takeover of the BLE by the German Reichsbahn in 1938 the locomotive was given the company number 79 001 in the second occupation ( Saxon XV HTV with this number was retired in 1933 ).

The locomotive survived the Second World War and in 1947 sold to the Brunswick- Schöninger railroad. Later she came to Frankfurt- Königstein Railway, to the Teutoburg Forest Railway and back to Frankfurt- Königstein Railway. There she was decommissioned in 1973.

The series number 79 001 was allocated in the third occupation from 1951, the former French and arrived after the war in German hands 242 TA- 602.