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- 1. Museo nazionale ferroviario di Pietrarsa - locomotiva 290.319: B.Zsolt· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane (FS; Italian State Railways) Class 290 (Italian: Gruppo 290), formerly the Rete Adriatica Class 350 bis, is a 0-6-0 steam locomotive.
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 127 years ago, in 1899.
- 368 kW is about 4 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 7 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 15.8 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
- 1899–1913
- number built
- 338
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇮🇹 Italy
- builders
- LEW Hennigsdorf, Costruzioni Meccaniche di Saronno, Breda, Henschel & Sohn, Ansaldo, Officine Meccaniche, Maffei, MÁVAG
- top speed
- 60 km/h
- power
- 368 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- C'n2
- length
- 15.8 m
- weight
- 43.8 t
- Dutch name
- Locomotiva FS 290
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q3836091, Wikipedia: FS Class 290 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.