German State Railroad Company (DRG) class 17.0. High-efficiency Faulhaber motor system. DELTA electronic circuit. 3 axles powered. 2 traction tires. Permanent close coupling between locomotive and tender. Length over buffers 24.0 cm (9-7/16").
After 1924 the German State Railroad Company brought all express locomotives with a 4-6-0 wheel arrangement from different provincial railroads into the class 17. The well-known and beautiful Prussian S 10 and further developments of it, the S 10.1 and S 10.2, represented by far the largest number of these locomotives. From that time on they were painted black and red and had smoke deflectors; at first they were used in quality express train service as before. In the 30s they had to make way increasingly for more modern locomotives. The once proud racers were used less and less in scheduled service at the front of fast and standard passenger trains; by the end of the war many had already been retired. Few of the class 17 locomotives came to the DB; in the GDR they were still to be seen in large numbers up to 1960.
