#2683
2-8-8-4
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Baldwin Locomotive Works· from 1941· articulated locomotive wheel arrangement
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Duluth Missabe and Iron Range 2-8-8-4 locomotive: Jet Lowe· Public domain
what is it?
A 2-8-8-4 steam locomotive, under the Whyte notation, has two leading wheels, two sets of eight driving wheels, and a four-wheel trailing truck. The type was generally named the Yellowstone, a name given it by the first owner, the Northern Pacific Railway, whose lines ran near Yellowstone National Park. Seventy-two Yellowstone-type locomotives were built for four U.S. railroads.
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 85 years ago, in 1941.
- 4.7 MW is about 55 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 53 African elephants (~6 t each).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1941–1943
- retired
- 1963
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 18
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Baldwin Locomotive Works
- operators
- Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway
- top speed
- 72 km/h
- power
- 4.7 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-8-8-4
- weight
- 315 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q4596852, Wikipedia: 2-8-8-4 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.