" Digitally switchable light and sound functions
Driver's cab interior lighting digitally switchable
Engine lighting with 3 lamps per side digitally switchable
Medium driving axles with smaller wheel flanges
Free view between boiler and running gear
Use in heavy goods train service / With the extension of the Passau-Wels line for 20 tons axle pressure, the powerful three-cylinder locomotives of the class 44 could also be used in Austria from 1938. They were indispensable for the heavy, especially long block trains from West Germany to the Linz steelworks. The ore trains from Hieflau were also transported on from Amstetten to Linz. After the Second World War, some locomotives continued to operate. However, because of the costly maintenance, they were soon shut down."