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FS Class 670
🇩🇪 Germany ·built by Breda· from 1900· class of 43 Italian cab-forward 4-6-0 locomotives
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2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Locomotiva FS 6943: Fernand Fleury, † 1918-07-18· Public domain
- 2. Image from page 369 of "Railway and locomotive engineering - a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock" (1901) FS 670: Internet Archive Book Images· CC0
what is it?
The Rete Adriatica Class 500 (Italian: Gruppo 500), classified after 1905 in the Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane (FS; Italian State Railways) as Class 670 (Italian: Gruppo 670) was an unorthodox and iconic cab forward 4-6-0 (2′C) steam locomotive.
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 126 years ago, in 1900.
- Weighs about as much as 12 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 13.7 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 29 years (1901–1930).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1900–1906
- in service from
- 1901
- retired
- 1930
- status
- retired
- number built
- 43
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- builders
- Breda, Borsig, Rete Adriatica
- operators
- Rete Adriatica, Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane, Società per le Strade Ferrate del Mediterraneo
- top speed
- 110 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-6-0
- length
- 13.7 m
- weight
- 69.9 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q3836151, Wikipedia: FS Class 670 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.