The precursors to the Austrian Southern Railway had a very disparate fleet of goods locomotives.

The Southern Railway therefore had a six-coupled freight locomotive developed which was based the French Bourbonnais prototype.

The Lokomotivfabrik der StEG engine works delivered 20 units in 1860, which proved themselves so well that a total of 205 were built up to 1872 by this factory along with the Wiener Neustädter Lokomotivfabrik and Maschinenfabrik Esslingen.

Over time there were several modifications, such as the driver's cab in 1861 and adding vacuum brake with sound absorbers and new boilers in the 1880s.

After the Second World War a few engines, classified by the Deutsche Reichsbahn as DRB 53.7111–7116, remained in Austria.