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Alsace-Lorraine A 2
🇩🇪 Germany ·built by Hanomag· from 1870· class of 15 German 2-4-0 locomotives
what is it?
The Alsace-Lorraine A 2 was a class of German 2-4-0 express passenger locomotives. In 1906 the Imperial Railways in Alsace-Lorraine (Reichseisenbahnen in Elsaß-Lothringen) reclassified them as P 2.
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 156 years ago, in 1870.
- Weighs about as much as 5 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 10.8 m long: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 42 years (1870–1912).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1870
- in service from
- 1870
- retired
- 1912
- status
- retired
- number built
- 15
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- builders
- Hanomag
- operators
- Imperial Railways in Alsace-Lorraine
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-4-0
- length
- 10.8 m
- weight
- 31.5 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1333480, Wikipedia: Alsace-Lorraine A 2 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.