#1785
FS Class 735
🇨🇦 Canada ·built by American Locomotive Company· from 1917· class of 393 Italian 2-8-0 locomotives
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- 1. Italy Rail 001 Bergamo: Brooksbank· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane (FS; Italian State Railways) Class 735 (Italian: Gruppo 35) is a 2-8-0 'Consolidation' steam locomotive.
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 109 years ago, in 1917.
- Weighs about as much as 11 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 10.6 m long: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 43 years (1917–1960).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1917–1922
- in service from
- 1917
- retired
- 1960
- status
- retired
- number built
- 400
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇨🇦 Canada
- builders
- American Locomotive Company, Montreal Locomotive Works
- operators
- Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane
- top speed
- 65 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 1′D h2
- length
- 10.6 m
- weight
- 63.1 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q3836166, Wikipedia: FS Class 735 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.