Fleischmann H0 - 4805 - Steam locomotive with tender, BR 50 of the DB With original packaging and booklet. Running number 50 622 Black locomotive with red chassis. Red spoked wheels and red caps on the tender No paint damage, but a glued crack to the buffer front, but hardly stands out Because there is a glued crack, the loc is offered as in very good condition, loc is in mint condition as you can see Tested on functionality. Please take a good look at the photos for an accurate impression of this lot The presentation rail is not a part of this offer. In the mid-1930s, the Deutsche Reichsbahn Gesellschaft (DRG) was looking for a successor to the then obsolete Series G10 steam locomotives (BR 5710.) This very dated locomotive had been in operation since the First World War and no longer met the demands of the time. With the required specifications of the DRG in mind, Henschell then developed a new locomotive which as it appeared would gain enormous popularity throughout Europe, and of w hich 3141 units were finally built. The first twelve locomotives of the BR 50 were delivered in 1939 by Henschel and were intended as freight-train locomotives. However, quite soon these locomotives were considered to be multi-functional for use with both freight trains and passenger trains. With their lower axle weight of 15 metric tons, and their maximum speed of 80 kmh in either direction, it became the universal locomotive for traffic on main and secondary routes. Given the excellent running characteristics, the demand for this machine increased and several steam locomotive manufacturers commenced production of this locomotive, namely: Krupp, Kraus-Maffei and Floridsdorf. By the end of 1939, 219 locomotives were already in operation. At the end of the day, these locomotives were built by almost all of the European locomotive factories such as Borsig, Orenstein Koppel, Schichau and Schwartzkopff. Up to and including 1943, these manufacturers built a total of 3164 units. The last Ser ies BR 50 was decommissioned in 1987. The BR 51 is actually just a BR 50 locomotive, there is simply no official BR 51. The reason that the company number of the locomotive starts with 51 is because it was decided that as from 1968, the company sequential number should consist of 3 digits. In view of the huge number of locomotives of this series that were built, there was a problem with the re-numbering. This was solved by using Company Numbers for locomotives with a sequential number higher than 1000 and moving the 1 in the first position to the BR number. In this manner locomotives were created with company number 51 xxx. The same applies to locomotives with a sequential number starting from 2000. These locomotives were given the Company Numbers 52 xxx. Ditto for above 3000, these were given Company Numbers 53 xxx.