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Prussian G 12
🇵🇱 Poland ·built by Henschel & Sohn· from 1917· class of German 3-cylinder 2-10-0 locomotives (later DRG Class 58)
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. 58 1261-5 1: MPW57· Public domain
- 2. Prussian G12 in Jugoslavia 1971: 8474tim ( talk )· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Prussian G 12 is a 1'E 2-10-0 goods train locomotive built for the Prussian state railways (Preußische Staatseisenbahnen). It had been shown during the First World War that, from a servicing and maintenance point of view, it was a great disadvantage for each state railway to have its own locomotive classes with no standardization. Even spare parts for locos of the same class often did not fit their sister locos.
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 109 years ago, in 1917.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1917–1924
- retired
- 1976
- status
- retired
- number built
- 1,478
- kind
- steam locomotive
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇵🇱 Poland
- builders
- Henschel & Sohn, Linke-Hofmann, Hanomag, Schichau-Werke, AEG, Friedrich Krupp AG, Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques, Maschinenbau-Gesellschaft Karlsruhe
- operators
- Polish State Railways, Austrian Federal Railways, Société nationale des chemins de fer français, Bulgarian State Railways, Royal Württemberg State Railways, Grand Duchy of Baden State Railway, Royal Saxon State Railways, Prussian state railways, Deutsche Bundesbahn, Deutsche Reichsbahn, Deutsche Reichsbahn (GDR), Imperial Railways in Alsace-Lorraine, Yugoslav Railways
- top speed
- 65 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-10-0
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q882482, Wikipedia: Prussian G 12 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.