#0607
Spokane, Portland and Seattle class A2
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Baldwin Locomotive Works· from 1887· class of 1 American 0-6-0 locomotive
what is it?
Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway No. 6 was the only locomotive in Class A-2. Purchased from the Northern Pacific Railway for A. B. Hammond's Astoria and Columbia River Railway, number 6 came to the SP&S secondhand.
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 139 years ago, in 1887.
- Weighs about as much as 5 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
- 1887
- number built
- 1
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Baldwin Locomotive Works
- operators
- Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway, Northern Pacific Railway
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-6-0
- weight
- 32.5 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7392167, Wikipedia: Spokane, Portland and Seattle class A2 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.