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Chesapeake and Ohio class H-8
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Lima Locomotive Works· from 1941· class of 60 American 2-6-6-6 locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Chesapeake and Ohio Lima 2-6-6-6 locomotive: Lima Locomotive Works· Public domain
what is it?
The Chesapeake and Ohio class H-8 is a class of 60 simple articulated 2-6-6-6 steam locomotives built by the Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio, between 1941 and 1948. Among the most powerful steam locomotives ever built, the H-8s hauled fast, heavy freight trains for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway until the mid-1950s. Two were preserved: Nos.
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 85 years ago, in 1941.
- 5.6 MW is about 66 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 58 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 23.2 m long: about 5 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
- 1941–1948
- retired
- 1956
- status
- retired
- number built
- 60
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Lima Locomotive Works
- designer
- Advisory Mechanical Committee
- operators
- Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
- top speed
- 113 km/h
- power
- 5.6 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-6-6-6
- length
- 23.2 m
- weight
- 350 t
- nicknames
- Allegheny
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q22341190, Wikipedia: Chesapeake and Ohio class H-8 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.