what is it?
The class IV f locomotives of the Grand Duchy of Baden State Railway (German: Großherzoglich Badische Staatseisenbahnen, G.Bad.St.E.) were express locomotives with a 4-6-2 (Pacific) wheel arrangement. They later passed to the Deutsche Reichsbahn, who classified them as class 18.2. These were the first Pacific locomotives in Germany and the second in Europe after the Paris-Orléans Railway 4500-series that had appeared a few months earlier.
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 119 years ago, in 1907.
- 1.3 MW is about 15 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 14 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 21.1 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 13 years (1907–1920).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1907–1913
- in service from
- 1907
- retired
- 1920
- status
- retired
- number built
- 35
- kind
- steam locomotive
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- builders
- Maffei, Maschinenbau-Gesellschaft Karlsruhe
- operators
- Grand Duchy of Baden State Railway, Deutsche Reichsbahn
- top speed
- 100 km/h
- power
- 1.3 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-6-2
- length
- 21.1 m
- weight
- 81.2 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q799072, Wikipedia: Baden IV f (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.