Russia Northern East-Prussia (April 1998)

Krasnowka (Birkenfeld): It's the topic of every "stabling-point-tour": 24 engines of the class TE are here concentrated, among them also 3 with the russian gauge of 1524 mm...

Birkenfeld   TE-2096
The locomotives at the large field...   TE-2096 was build by Henschel, Kassel.
Tender   Allied Forces
The tender of 52.2698: In 1945 the engine stayed in the US-Zone in Western Germany, came to the USSR-Zone in September 1945 and were brought to the Soviet Union in 1947.

Gusew (Gumbinnen), Tschernjachowsk (Insterburg): Once here were several TE's - they were all scraped in summer of 1997 in Tschernjachowsk. Because these stabling points are empty now the locomotives of Schelesnidoroschni and Krasnowka will be the next for cut down...

TE-1118 + TE-5221   L-4060
TE-1118 and TE-5221 in front of the shed of Gusew - destroyed by a tank-attack in Oktober 1944!   An exotic steamer in Tschernjachowsk: Russian class L (#4060), also scraped in 1997.