#1405
Palatine P 5
🇩🇪 Germany ·built by Lokomotivfabrik Krauss & Comp.· from 1908· class of 12+29 German 2-6-4T locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Bayerische Pt 3-6 Nr. 6105: Unknown photographer (Werksbild)· Public domain
what is it?
The six-coupled P 5 of the Palatinate Railway (Pfalzbahn) was to replace the four-coupled locomotives in the Palatinate. They were given a leading Krauss-Helmholtz bogie and a trailing bogie in order to achieve satisfactory weight distribution. The firm of Krauss delivered twelve examples in 1908.
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 118 years ago, in 1908.
- Served for 48 years (1908–1956).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1908–1923
- in service from
- 1908
- retired
- 1956
- status
- retired
- number built
- 41
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- builders
- Lokomotivfabrik Krauss & Comp.
- operators
- Deutsche Reichsbahn, Deutsche Bundesbahn, Deutsche Reichsbahn (GDR), Palatinate Railway
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-6-4
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q877427, Wikipedia: Palatine P 5 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.