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HK 94–100
🇩🇪 Germany ·built by Maschinenbau-Gesellschaft Karlsruhe· from 1918· class of 7 German 0-4-4-0T Mallet locomotives
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what is it?
The HK 94–100 is a series of four-axled, German Mallet locomotives with a 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) track gauge.
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 108 years ago, in 1918.
- Weighs about as much as 5 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 9.4 m long: about 2 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
- 1918
- in service from
- 1918
- number built
- 7
- kind
- steam locomotive
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- builders
- Maschinenbau-Gesellschaft Karlsruhe
- operators
- Ruhr-Lippe-Eisenbahnen, Deutsche Reichsbahn (GDR), Nordhausen-Wernigeroder Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, Euskirchener Kreisbahnen, Heeresfeldbahn, Haspe–Voerde–Breckerfeld Light Railway, Alb Valley Railway
- top speed
- 30 km/h
- power
- 200 kW
- gauge
- 1,000 mm metre gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-4-4-0
- length
- 9.4 m
- weight
- 28.5 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1563797, Wikipedia: HK 94–100 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.