BR 17.5

The first steam locomotive of type S 3/5 H was locomotive 3329 (Maffei 1906/2520), who was exhibited at the "Bayerischen Landesausstellung" in Nürnberg. From 1908 the Bavarian Railways ordered by Mafffei only the superheated version of the series S 3/5 (H stood for "Heißdampf"). The locomotives were capable of pulling a train of 450 ton on a flatland with a speed of 100 km/h, and a train of 370 ton on a hillside of 1:100 with a speed of 50 km/h. From thirty locomotives delivered to the Bavarian railways between 1906 and 1911, four locomotives were going to France after the first world war and two were going to Belgium.

In service at the DRG

The DRG took over 24 locomotives and put them into service as BR 17.5 with the numbers: 17 501 up to 17 524. The DB took over 21 locomotives after the second world war, these were set aside in 1948.