#1454
VR Class Vk4
🇩🇪 Germany ·built by LEW Hennigsdorf· from 1909· class of 2 Finnish 0-4-0T locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Borsig-Leena: Whoiswho· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The locomotive that came to form VR Class Vk4 was originally one of a pair of 0-4-0T locomotives ordered from Rheinmetall Borsig Lokomotiv Werke (AEG), Germany to work at Ino fortress at Terijoki on the Karelian Isthmus. The locomotives had 2 axles, they were the wet-steam type, and used a slip-Walschaert valve gear. Production numbers and years were 7268/1909 and 7858/1910.
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 117 years ago, in 1909.
- Weighs about as much as 3 African elephants (~6 t each).
- Served for 58 years (1909–1967).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1909–1910
- in service from
- 1909
- retired
- 1967
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 2
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- builders
- LEW Hennigsdorf, Borsig
- operators
- Finnish State Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,524 mm Russian broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-4-0T
- length
- 6.6 m
- weight
- 18 t
- nicknames
- “Leena”
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7907516, Wikipedia: VR Class Vk4 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.