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South West African Jung
🇩🇪 Germany ·built by Arnold Jung Lokomotivfabrik· from 1903· Narrow gauge steam locomotive
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
what is it?
The South West African Jung 0-6-2T of 1904 was a narrow gauge steam locomotive from the German South West Africa era. In 1904, the Otavi Mining and Railway Company in German South West Africa acquired fifteen 0-6-2T locomotives from Arnold Jung Lokomotivfabrik in Germany. Two of them survived the First World War to be taken onto the South African Railways roster in 1922.
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 123 years ago, in 1903.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1903
- in service from
- 1904
- number built
- 15
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- builders
- Arnold Jung Lokomotivfabrik
- designer
- Arnold Jung Lokomotivfabrik
- operators
- Otavi Mining and Railway Company, Transnet Freight Rail
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 600 mm narrow gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-6-2
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q17091854, Wikipedia: South West African Jung (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.