It can be considered the prototype for diesel locomotives with a gas turbine as an additional drive; specifically the DB Class 210.

(see Head end power) Another variant was the V 169, this locomotive utilised a supplementary gas turbine to improve overall performance.

Subsequently, the locomotive was sold to Impresa Attilio Rossi in Italy and worked between Rome and Naples (as T1591) up till 1998/9.

After the German railway reform of 1994 cheap second-hand locomotives with authorization for work in Germany were in demand.

So in 1999 the locomotive was bought (back to Germany) by leasing firm RailImpex and sent to Gmeinder for refurbishment and remotoring,.

In the summer of 2000, the loco was used for garbage trains from Krefeld to Hildesheim until September when a collision meant the machine must return to Gmeinder for repair.

In October 2001 the unit was transferred to Eisenbahnen und Verkehrsbetriebe Elbe-Weser GmbH and worked on container trains between Hamburg, Bremerhaven and Bremen.