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FS Class E.420
🇺🇸 United States ·built by General Electric· from 1901· class of 1 Italian electric locomotive
what is it?
FS class E.420 locomotive was a third rail electric locomotive built for the operation of the Milan - Gallarate - Varese railway in Italy.
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 125 years ago, in 1901.
- 440 kW is about 5 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 6 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 10.2 m long: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- 1901
- number built
- 1
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- General Electric
- operators
- Società per le Strade Ferrate del Mediterraneo
- top speed
- 60 km/h
- power
- 440 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- 650 V DC third rail (till 1937), 1200 V DC overhead line (from 1937)
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′Bo′
- length
- 10.2 m
- weight
- 34.1 t
- nicknames
- salt box
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q28669826, Wikipedia: FS Class E.420 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.