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Spokane, Portland and Seattle class E-1
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Baldwin Locomotive Works· from 1938· class of 3 American 4-8-4 locomotives
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- 1. Spokane Portland and Seattle engine 700 idle: The original uploader was Jerryg at English Wikipedia .· CC BY-SA 2.5
what is it?
Spokane Portland and Seattle Railway's E-1 class is a class of the only three 4-8-4 locomotives built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1938. The E-1 class "Northerns" were very similar to the A-2 through the A-5 class "Northerns" on the Northern Pacific Railroad built by Baldwin from 1934–1943. Visually, the locos are near-identical.
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 88 years ago, in 1938.
- Top speed is 1.4× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 14 minutes.
- Weighs about as much as 37 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
- 1938
- retired
- 1956
- status
- in service
- number built
- 3
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Baldwin Locomotive Works
- operators
- Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway
- top speed
- 177 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-8-4
- weight
- 220 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16259551, Wikipedia: Spokane, Portland and Seattle class E-1 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.