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Pennsylvania Railroad class D6
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Altoona Works· from 1881· class of 19 American 4-4-0 locomotives
what is it?
Class D6 (formerly Class K, pre-1895) on the Pennsylvania Railroad was a class of 4-4-0 steam locomotive. Nineteen were built by the PRR's Altoona Works (now owned by Norfolk Southern) between 1881 and 1883. They were equipped with 78-inch (1,981 mm) drivers.
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 145 years ago, in 1881.
- Weighs about as much as 7 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 17.7 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1881–1883
- number built
- 19
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Altoona Works
- designer
- Theodore N. Ely
- operators
- Pennsylvania Railroad
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-4-0
- length
- 17.7 m
- weight
- 43.9 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7120474, Wikipedia: Pennsylvania Railroad class D6 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.