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Württemberg Fz
🇩🇪 Germany ·built by Maschinenfabrik Esslingen· from 1893· class of 9 German 2-6-0T rack locomotives
what is it?
The Württenberg Fz was a class of nine 2-6-0T rack locomotives of the Royal Württemberg State Railways (Königlich Württembergische Staats-Eisenbahnen, K.W.St.E.). Seven of the Riggenbach rack system locomotives (Nos. 591 to 596 and 599) were taken over by Deutsche Reichsbahn and were placed in class (Baureihe) 97.3 in their 1925 renumbering plan.
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 133 years ago, in 1893.
- Weighs about as much as 7 African elephants (~6 t each).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1893–1904
- retired
- 1930
- status
- retired
- number built
- 9
- kind
- steam locomotive
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- builders
- Maschinenfabrik Esslingen
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-6-0
- weight
- 43 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2596837, Wikipedia: Württemberg Fz (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.