The US Government offered Hungary a $150 million commodity loan and a part of this was used to purchase 510 pieces of the USATC S160 Class steam locomotives, for $10,000 each.

The poorest quality 28 engines got no MÁV numbers, these were preserved as component sources for later repairs.

Unlike many other European users of the S160 locomotives MÁV considered these engines as a medium-term solution and decided to change many details on them.

Fortunately, the 411,144 was purchased in 1992 by Martin Haines for the Milton-Keynes Locomotion & Navigation (GB), and is now preserved at the Churnet Valley Railway, along with another S160 from China.

411,388 was sold to the East Lancashire Railway in the same year, and is currently undergoing an overhaul at the Nottingham Transport Heritage Centre.