 18 528 is preserved and stood as a memorial in front of the HQ building of the former Krauss-Maffei company in Munich.The locomotive is now in a shelter in the grounds of the Allach factory, following the takeover of the former Krauss Maffei Transport Technology by Siemens, and is not accessible to the public.In the 1950s a large part of the Deutsche Bundesbahn's vehicle fleet underwent modernisation.