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[quote user="emdmike"]Slowly working on a layout depicting the flatlands of northern Germany where these engines worked.[/quote] Although they were designed to work the flatlands of northern Germany, most of them saw service in Pomerania and East Prussia, which fell to Poland in 1945 after the German population had been either killed or deported. Those who made it to the West mainly saw service in the Rhineland area, southwest of Duesseldorf, where I saw them in my childhood days. Deutsche Bundesbahn took them out of service in 1966. Deutsche Reichsbahn in the eastern part of Germany kept them rolling a little longer, but by 1971 they were all out of service. 24 009 was eventually sold to West German enthusiast and is now the sole survivor in working order of this class. Two more are on display, but beyond repair. Good luch with the repair job on your class 86!
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