#2752
Queensland AC16 class locomotive
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Baldwin Locomotive Works· from 1943· class of 20 Australian 2-8-2 locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. AC16 221A Ipswich Workshops: Reef Thomspon· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Queensland Railways AC16 class locomotive is a class of 2-8-2 steam locomotives operated by the Queensland Railways.
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 83 years ago, in 1943.
- Weighs about as much as 9 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 18 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1943
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 20
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Baldwin Locomotive Works
- operators
- Queensland Rail
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-8-2
- length
- 18 m
- weight
- 54 t
- nicknames
- Yank
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q7270890, Wikipedia: Queensland AC16 class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.