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Little Joe
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Baldwin Locomotive Works· from 1912· class of 4 American 0-4-0ST locomotives
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2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Image from page 1259 of "Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine" (1912): Internet Archive Book Images· CC0
- 2. B&O Docksider NO.98: Unknown author Unknown author· Public domain
what is it?
The C-16 class switchers were the last 0-4-0 steam locomotives built for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. They were assigned to the Baltimore, Maryland "Pratt Street Line" along the Inner Harbor, and to the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania waterfront trackage. Initially constructed as saddle tank engines, nos.
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 114 years ago, in 1912.
- Weighs about as much as 9 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
- 1912
- status
- retired
- number built
- 4
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Baldwin Locomotive Works
- operators
- Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-4-0
- weight
- 54.4 t
- nicknames
- "Little Joe", "Dockside"
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6650521, Wikipedia: Little Joe (Baltimore and Ohio locomotive) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.