what is it?
Locomotive SFAI 1400 was a small 0-4-0 tank locomotive built in 1870 for the Società per le strade ferrate dell'Alta Italia (SFAI) by Cockerill of Seraing.
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 4 African elephants (~6 t each).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1870
- number built
- 1
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇧🇪 Belgium
- builders
- John Cockerill, John Cockerill & Cie.
- top speed
- 35 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-4-0T
- length
- 7.2 m
- weight
- 24 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q3836275, Wikipedia: Locomotive SFAI 1400 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.