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Milwaukee Road class A
🇺🇸 United States ·built by American Locomotive Company· from 1935· class of 4 American streamlined 4-4-2 locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Hiawatha streamlined steam locomotive 1951: Audio-Visual designs, Earlton, NY/photo: Russ Porter· Public domain
what is it?
The Milwaukee Road Class "A" was a class of high-speed, streamlined 4-4-2 "Atlantic" type steam locomotives built by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) from 1935 to 1937 to haul the Milwaukee Road's Hiawatha express passenger trains. Numbered from No. 1 to No.
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 91 years ago, in 1935.
- Top speed is 1.4× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 13 minutes.
- Weighs about as much as 41 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 26.8 m long: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 16 years (1935–1951).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1935–1937
- in service from
- 1935
- retired
- 1951
- status
- retired
- number built
- 4
- kind
- steam locomotive
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- American Locomotive Company
- operators
- Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad
- top speed
- 181 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-4-2
- length
- 26.8 m
- weight
- 244 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1881499, Wikipedia: Milwaukee Road class A (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.