They were incorporated into the Deutsche Reichsbahn as DRG Class 891 with operating numbers 89 101–121.
[1] The first four machines - procured in 1889/1990 - were bought as replacements for engines that had been decommissioned and they were given their numbers.
All the engine were given names as well as operating numbers as was usual with the Palatinate Railways at that time.
Twenty one units were taken over by the Deutsche Reichsbahn, who renamed them the Class 89.1 in their numbering scheme.
In a list of locomotives in the French occupation zone from 1948, eight engines are allotted to the EAW Kaiserslautern.