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Olomana
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Baldwin Locomotive Works· from 1883· preserved narrow gauge American 0-4-2ST locomotive
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Olomana Locomotive 2: Smallbones· Public domain
- 2. Waimanalo Sugar Company 3 Olomana - September 2025: Logg Tandy· CC BY 4.0
what is it?
The Olomana is a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge 0-4-2ST steam locomotive built by Baldwin Locomotive Works (BLW) in 1883 for the Waimanalo Sugar Company in Hawaii. It is currently in the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, on loan from the Smithsonian Institution. It was the third self-propelled vehicle to operate in Hawaii.
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 143 years ago, in 1883.
- Served for 61 years (1883–1944).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1883
- in service from
- 1883
- retired
- 1944
- status
- retired
- number built
- —
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Baldwin Locomotive Works
- operators
- Waimanalo Sugar Company
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 914 mm 3 ft narrow gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-4-2
- length
- 7.6 m
- weight
- 8.2 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7088509, Wikipedia: Olomana (locomotive) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.