The 50 849 locomotive built the Krauss-Maffei locomotive in Munich Allach with factory number 16058 in 1940. After 1945 it remained in the Soviet occupation zone and thus with the German State Railroad. Finally, after leaving the planned service, the joint venture established in 1979, set up in 3/75, Eisenbahntradition Zwickau, took over the freight train locomotive. It turned the run-down machine back into an optical and technical state of the art. In 1980, the 50s were taken over to the traditional park of DR.Among the various special train applications it was also used as train locomotive for the wagon set known as Zwickau tradition train. To this day, the rolling and fully preserved museum locomotive has its home in the Glauchauer Lokschhued and is lovingly looked after there.This text is machine translated.