Preserved Locomotives
From 1912 the S 6 was ousted from heavy express train services by the S 10.
In the 1923 DRG renumbering plan for steam locomotives, 442 S 6 engines were listed for renumbering into the 13 1001 to 13 1442 series. In the third and final renumbering plan only 286 engines were listed: numbers 13 1001 to 13 1286. The last engines in Germany were retired between 1926 and 1931.
After World War I, 81 S 6s were handed over to Poland, 42 to Belgium, two to Italy and one to Lithuania as reparations. The engines in those countries survived considerably longer in service; in Belgium they were not retired until 1956.
During the Second World War a total of 56 S 6 came back into the Reichsbahn fleet from Poland as numbers 13 501-556.
One S 6 has been preserved in Warsaw (Poland).
Read more about this topic: Prussian S 6
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