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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Prussian S 6 (later DRG Class 13.10-12) was a class of German steam locomotive with a 4-4-0 wheel arrangement operated by the Prussian state railways for express train services. After the Prussian steam locomotive classes S 4 and S 5 proved less than fully satisfactory, there was a requirement in Prussia for faster and more powerful express locomotives. To that end the Head of the Locomotive Design and Procurement Department, Robert Garbe, proposed to the Locomotive Committee in 1904 a design by Linke-Hofmann of Breslau for a 4-4-0 superheated, express train locomotive. This was an evolutionary development of the Prussian Class S 4 that also had a 4-4-0 configuration. In putting this forward, Garbe was especially keen to prove the superiority of his design compared with the four-cylinder, wet steam, compound locomotives, particularly its predecessor, the Prussian Class S 7.

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