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what is it?
The Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane (FS; Italian State Railways) Class 420 (Italian: Gruppo 290), formerly SFAI Class 1200, Rete Adriatica Class 420 and Rete Mediterranea Class 480, was a class of 0-8-0 steam locomotives.
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 153 years ago, in 1873.
- 456 kW is about 5 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 9 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 16.3 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1873–1905
- number built
- 293
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇮🇹 Italy
- builders
- John Cockerill, Breda, Ansaldo, Officine Meccaniche, Maffei, MÁVAG, Maschinenfabrik Esslingen, Henschel & Sohn
- top speed
- 45 km/h
- power
- 456 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- D'n2
- length
- 16.3 m
- weight
- 55.7 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q24088575, Wikipedia: FS Class 420 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.