what is it?
The Oldenburg Class T 1 was an early German locomotive operated by the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg State Railways. It was a four-coupled tank locomotive for shunting duties. There were two types, of which the later one entered the Deutsche Reichsbahn fleet and became Class 98.74.
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 138 years ago, in 1888.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1888–1892
- retired
- 1933
- status
- retired
- number built
- 18
- kind
- steam locomotive
- traction
- steam
- origin
- Deutsches Reich
- builders
- Hohenzollern Locomotive Works, Lokomotivfabrik Krauss & Comp.
- top speed
- 45 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1706948, Wikipedia: Oldenburg T 1 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.