Museum Vehicles
Many of these robust and well-loved railbuses were sold to railway societies and museums, and are still working today in museum duties.
For example, railbuses are still used by the Deutsche Bahn, even if the actual vehicles are provided by railway societies. One multiple is painted in Regionalbahn colours and runs on summer weekends for tourists on the Schwäbische Albbahn and the Donautalbahn between Ulm Hauptbahnhof and Kleinengstingen. These trains run in the timetable as an entirely normal Regionalbahn service; The first car has a plate on it with the notice "im Auftrag der DB" (under contract to the DB). To be consistent, all the normal DB local fares (and at times the NALDO and DING combined fares) apply. The former Chiemgaubahn railbuses, which were painted in white and mint green, are used for this, along with others. This formation is also called the Ulmer Spatz.
Other vehicles are in service with the:
- Bochum-Dahlhausen Railway Museum,
- Passau Railway Society (Passauer Eisenbahnfreunde),
- German Steam Locomotive Museum,
- Bavarian Railway Museum,
- Upper Hessian Railway Society (Oberhessische Eisenbahnfreunde e. V.),
- Historic Railway, Frankfurt,
- Alme Valley Forest Railway (Waldbahn Almetal),
- Railbus Society (Hönnetaler Eisenbahnfreunde),
- Rodachtalbahn from Steinwiesen to Nordhalben.
- Cologne-Bonn Railway Society (Köln-Bonner Eisenbahn-Freunde or KBEF)
- South Limburg Steam Train Society (Zuid-Limburgse Stoomtrein Maatschappij)
- Zollernbahn Railway Society (Eisenbahnfreunde Zollernbahn)
- Seelze Railbus Society (IG Schienenbus Seelze or ISS)
Uerdingen railbuses are also owned by the
- Nuremberg Transport Museum - one VT 95 rake and one VT 98 rake,
- Deutsches Technikmuseum in Berlin - a VT 98 exhibit,
- Historic Motor Locomotive Working Group (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Historische Brennkraftlokomotiven) - a steel-sprung VT 98,
- Honau-Lichtenstein Rack Railway Society (Freunde der Zahnradbahn Honau–Lichtenstein) - two VT 97s,
- Hamm Railway Society - one of the few still working VT 95 railbuses on long loan to the Freundeskreis für Eisenbahnen, Münster,
- DGEG at Bochum-Dahlhausen - a VT 95 in extremely poor condition after a shunting accident,
- Pfalzbahn GmbH - 2 VT 98, 1 trailer and 1 driving car with office.
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