It was driven the first few meters under its own steam on 16 June 2009 in Meiningen. On 4 July 2009, the new locomotive was christened and officially put into service in the narrow-gauge area of Radebeul Ost station. The new locomotive 54, which also bears the computer number 99 7528, was initially at home on the Preßnitztalbahn in Jöhstadt. On 30 August 2009, the locomotive was first used as scheduled in front of the museum trains between Jöhstadt and Steinbach. After the dissolution of the Association for the Promotion of Saxon Narrow Gauge Railways, the Saxon Narrow Gauge Railways Foundation (Stiftung Sächsische Schmalspurbahnen) has owned the locomotive since 2015 and has housed it with the Saxon-Upper Lusatian Railway Company (SOEG) from summer 2015. This does not change anything in the previous operating concept.
