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East Broad Top Railroad Mikado locomotives
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Baldwin Locomotive Works· from 1911· three classes (six locomotives) of American 3-foot gauge 2-8-2 locomotives
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. EBT sat 130xRP - Flickr - drewj1946: Drew Jacksich from San Jose, CA, The Republic of California· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 2. 16 Returning with Excursion: O484~enwiki· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The East Broad Top Railroad owns six three-foot gauge Mikado locomotives built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works. These engines original to the railroad have survived from their construction to the present day, with various members of the fleet having run in steam for excursion train service on the preserved route.
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 115 years ago, in 1911.
- Weighs about as much as 13 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
- 1911
- number built
- 6
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Baldwin Locomotive Works
- operators
- East Broad Top Railroad and Coal Company
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 914 mm 3 ft narrow gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-8-2
- weight
- 78 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q116045233, Wikipedia: East Broad Top Railroad Mikado locomotives (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.