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Pennsylvania Railroad class D16
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Altoona Works· from 1895· class of American 4-4-0 locomotive
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. PRR 6217 Olean, NY: Harold K. Vollrath· Public domain
what is it?
Class D16 on the Pennsylvania Railroad was their final development of the 4-4-0 "American" type of steam locomotive. A total of 429 of these locomotives were built at the PRR's Juniata Shops, spread across five subclasses; some had 80 in (2,030 mm) diameter driving wheels for service in level territory, while others had 68 in (1,730 mm) drivers for mountainous terrain. In the pre-1895 scheme, these locomotives were second class L. Construction continued until 1910, and the locomotives, aided by a rebuild program from 1914, remained in service in large numbers until the 1930s, a small number surviving into the 1940s.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 131 years ago, in 1895.
- Weighs about as much as 11 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 18.9 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 58 years (1895–1953).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1895–1910
- in service from
- 1895
- retired
- 1953
- status
- retired
- number built
- 639
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Altoona Works
- designer
- Theodore N. Ely, Axel S. Vogt, Frank D. Casanave
- operators
- Pennsylvania Railroad
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-4-0
- length
- 18.9 m
- weight
- 64 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7120469, Wikipedia: Pennsylvania Railroad class D16 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.