The locomotives type D VI were wet steam locomotives of the Bavarian State Railways. Maffei delivered the first 30 locomotives from 1880 until 1883 and 23 more were delivered by Krauss in 1894. For the first time these Bavarian locomotives were fitted with running boards and vacuum brakes type Hardy. Some units even had connecting platforms. The placement of sandboxes bellow the footplate and between the coupling axles was unusual. The first 44 locomotives had no storage containers on the sides. The water was located in a framed water tank and the coal in the driver's cab. However the last nine locomotives had short storage containers infront of the driver's cab. With that the water storage was increase from 1,8 to 2,3 m³ and the coal storage from 0,5 to 0,8 t. In the 1920s a few D VI were in service in the Pfalz as ships bridge-locomotives in Speyer and Maximiliansau. In 1925 the DRG took over another 26 vehicles of the type 98.75 of which five had storage containers on the sides. They were decommissioned at the end of the 1920s and partially sold as factory locomotives. The former locomotive no. 83 "Berg" (DRG 987508) was in the end in service in a turf factory in Raubling, Upper Bavaria and only decommissioned in 1964. In between it even served as a locomotive in movies. It was sold to DGEG in 1966 and now is housed at the DGEG Railways Museum in Neustadt (Weinstraße). In 2011 we commemorate the 90th anniversary of the death of Ludwig Thomas. With the current D VI we delight in remembering Thoma in his satirical comedy "Die Lokalbahn" (1901) or the movie version "Lausbubengeschichten", in which the model train locomotive was featured.